OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Triptych with the Way to Calvary, the Crucifixion, and the Disrobing of Jesus” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:34 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Triptych with the Way to Calvary, the Crucifixion, and the Disrobing of Jesus

Triptych with the Way to Calvary, the Crucifixion, and the Disrobing of Jesus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chapel Wall, by Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630

Design for a Chapel Wall

Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630 · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Abraham Francen, Apothecary

Abraham Francen, Apothecary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1656

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triptych with the Passion of Christ

Triptych with the Passion of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–85

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Abraham Francen

Portrait of Abraham Francen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1656

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor, by Joos van Cleve

The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Sheath for a Cutlery Set

Sheath for a Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · 1555

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Early 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triptych with the Nativity and the Annunciation, by Master of the Orléans Triptych

Triptych with the Nativity and the Annunciation

Master of the Orléans Triptych · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
"Cigar Box" Crucifix, by Unidentified

"Cigar Box" Crucifix

Unidentified · ca. 1880-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John, by Unidentified

Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John

Unidentified · 1400-1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Pietro Lorenzetti

The Crucifixion

Pietro Lorenzetti · 1340s

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid-late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Altarpiece, by Unidentified

Altarpiece

Unidentified · 1100-1200

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plaque with the Pentecost

Plaque with the Pentecost

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Public domainThe Met
Bonad

Bonad

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child, by Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, born Siegen, Germany 1577-died Antwerp, Belgium 1640

Madonna and Child

Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, born Siegen, Germany 1577-died Antwerp, Belgium 1640 · ca. 1615-1618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 420 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3537271 matched · 40 examined · 16 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 19:34 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.