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. 23 shown for “Via crucis - Station III, He Falls Beneath the Cross the First Time” — 51 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:36 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.
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Via crucis - Station III, He Falls Beneath the Cross the First Time

Via crucis - Station III, He Falls Beneath the Cross the First Time

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1749

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
Via crucis - Station VII, He Falls Beneath the Cross the Second Time

Via crucis - Station VII, He Falls Beneath the Cross the Second Time

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flagellation, by Master of the Berswordt Altar

The Flagellation

Master of the Berswordt Altar · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
Via crucis - Station IX, He Falls Beneath the Cross the Third Time

Via crucis - Station IX, He Falls Beneath the Cross the Third Time

Artist not stated in the record · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Via crucis - Station II, He Takes the Cross on His Shoulders

Via crucis - Station II, He Takes the Cross on His Shoulders

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, by Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) · ca. 1524–26

Public domainThe Met
Via crucis - Station V, Simon of Cyrene Helps Him to Carry the Cross

Via crucis - Station V, Simon of Cyrene Helps Him to Carry the Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heroic Landscape with Rainbow, by Joseph Anton Koch

Heroic Landscape with Rainbow

Joseph Anton Koch · 1824

Public domainThe Met
Via crucis - Station IV, He Meets His Mother

Via crucis - Station IV, He Meets His Mother

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius, by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Frontispiece of the Via crucis (Stations of the Cross)

Frontispiece of the Via crucis (Stations of the Cross)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family, by Joos van Cleve

The Holy Family

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1512–13

Public domainThe Met
Via crucis - Station XI, Jesus Nailed to the Cross

Via crucis - Station XI, Jesus Nailed to the Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salvator Mundi, by Hans Memling

Salvator Mundi

Hans Memling · 1480–85

Public domainThe Met
Via crucis - Station VIII, He Consoles the Weeping Women

Via crucis - Station VIII, He Consoles the Weeping Women

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abner's Messenger before David; The Queen of Sheba Bringing Gifts to Solomon; The Annunciation, by Master of the Saint Barbara Legend

Abner's Messenger before David; The Queen of Sheba Bringing Gifts to Solomon; The Annunciation

Master of the Saint Barbara Legend · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Via crucis - Station I, Jesus Condemned to Death

Via crucis - Station I, Jesus Condemned to Death

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chōmeiji Temple Pilgrimage Mandala

Chōmeiji Temple Pilgrimage Mandala

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Via crucis - Station VI, Saint Veronica Wipes His Face

Via crucis - Station VI, Saint Veronica Wipes His Face

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1749

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
North American P-51C, "Excalibur III", by North American Aircraft Company

North American P-51C, "Excalibur III"

North American Aircraft Company · 1944

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1328072 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-04 07:36 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.