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. 17 shown for “Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794” — 45 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:18 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.
Design for a Pulpit, by Louis Gustave Taraval

Design for a Pulpit

Louis Gustave Taraval · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
L’ORDRE IONIQUE, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

L’ORDRE IONIQUE

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Pulpit, by Louis Gustave Taraval

Design for a Pulpit

Louis Gustave Taraval · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

Title Page

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Fireworks Display in Paris for the Birth of the Dauphin in 1781, by Louis Gustave Taraval

Design for the Fireworks Display in Paris for the Birth of the Dauphin in 1781

Louis Gustave Taraval · 1781

Public domainThe Met
L’ORDRE COMPOSIT, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

L’ORDRE COMPOSIT

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Neoclassical Building, Thought to be a School of Arts for the City of Stockholm, by Louis Gustave Taraval

Design for a Neoclassical Building, Thought to be a School of Arts for the City of Stockholm

Louis Gustave Taraval · ca. 1770–94

Public domainThe Met
L’ORDRE DORIQUE, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

L’ORDRE DORIQUE

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Canopy Bed in an Alcove, by Anonymous, French, 18th century

Design for a Canopy Bed in an Alcove

Anonymous, French, 18th century · ca. 1770–90

Public domainThe Met
LES ORDRES CORINTHIEN ET IONIQUE, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

LES ORDRES CORINTHIEN ET IONIQUE

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
LES ORDRES DORIQUE ET CORINTHIEN, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

LES ORDRES DORIQUE ET CORINTHIEN

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
PLUSIEURS PORTAILS ET PORTES Composés et Gravés par L.G Taraval, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

PLUSIEURS PORTAILS ET PORTES Composés et Gravés par L.G Taraval

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frontispiece with Portrait Medallion, Recueil d’Ornemens, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

Frontispiece with Portrait Medallion, Recueil d’Ornemens

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triumphal Arch with the Royal Swedish Coat of Arms, by Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794

Triumphal Arch with the Royal Swedish Coat of Arms

Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poele pour être placé dans un angle ou dans une niche, avec voussure ornée de caissons, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

Poele pour être placé dans un angle ou dans une niche, avec voussure ornée de caissons

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
PIED-D’ESTAL circulaire, surmonté de deux enfans tenant une corbeille, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

PIED-D’ESTAL circulaire, surmonté de deux enfans tenant une corbeille

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
PIED-D’ESTAL circulaire, surmonté de deux enfans tenant une corbeille, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

PIED-D’ESTAL circulaire, surmonté de deux enfans tenant une corbeille

Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 130139 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 22:18 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.