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. 18 shown for “Chlorocebus tantalus tantalus” — 52 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 00:24 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.
Tantalus, by Giulio Sanuto

Tantalus

Giulio Sanuto · ca. 1557–70

Public domainThe Met
Chlorocebus tantalus tantalus

Chlorocebus tantalus tantalus

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sisyphus and Tantalus, by Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Sisyphus and Tantalus

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Chlorocebus tantalus tantalus

Chlorocebus tantalus tantalus

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tantalus (Tantalo), plate 9 from "Los Caprichos", by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Tantalus (Tantalo), plate 9 from "Los Caprichos"

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1799

Public domainThe Met
Chlorocebus tantalus tantalus

Chlorocebus tantalus tantalus

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 9 from "Los Caprichos": Tantalus (Tantalo), by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Plate 9 from "Los Caprichos": Tantalus (Tantalo)

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1799

Public domainThe Met
Plate 9: Tantalus (Tantalo), from "Los Caprichos", by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Plate 9: Tantalus (Tantalo), from "Los Caprichos"

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1798–99

Public domainThe Met
Chlorocebus tantalus tantalus

Chlorocebus tantalus tantalus

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Apr 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phaeton, from "The Four Disgracers", by Hendrick Goltzius

Phaeton, from "The Four Disgracers"

Hendrick Goltzius · 1588

Public domainThe Met
Tantalus at left speaking to Diana at right, set within an elaborate frame, from "Loves, Rages and Jealousies of Juno", by Giulio Bonasone

Tantalus at left speaking to Diana at right, set within an elaborate frame, from "Loves, Rages and Jealousies of Juno"

Giulio Bonasone · 1531–76

Public domainThe Met
The torments of Tantalus... water included, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, November 23, 1870, by Honoré Daumier

The torments of Tantalus... water included, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, November 23, 1870

Honoré Daumier · November 23, 1870

Public domainThe Met
Chlorocebus tantalus tantalus

Chlorocebus tantalus tantalus

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jan 1967

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tantalus, from "The Four Disgracers", by Hendrick Goltzius

Tantalus, from "The Four Disgracers"

Hendrick Goltzius · 1588

Public domainThe Met
Ixion, from "The Four Disgracers", by Hendrick Goltzius

Ixion, from "The Four Disgracers"

Hendrick Goltzius · 1588

Public domainThe Met
Chlorocebus tantalus tantalus

Chlorocebus tantalus tantalus

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jan 1956 to 16 Feb 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Icarus, from "The Four Disgracers", by Hendrick Goltzius

Icarus, from "The Four Disgracers"

Hendrick Goltzius · 1588

Public domainThe Met
Chlorocebus tantalus tantalus

Chlorocebus tantalus tantalus

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jan 1968

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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 1 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. 783 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-06 00:24 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.