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 “Taste, from "Senses"” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 00:23 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.
Taste, from "The Five Senses", by Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

Taste, from "The Five Senses"

Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus · 1730–65

Public domainThe Met
Taste, from "Senses"

Taste, from "Senses"

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charity, by Carlo Cignani

Charity

Carlo Cignani · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Le Gout (Taste) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses), by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Le Gout (Taste) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1720–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taste from The Five Senses, by Cornelis Cort

Taste from The Five Senses

Cornelis Cort · 1561

Public domainThe Met
Le Gout, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Le Gout

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1758–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Lady in 1866, by Edouard Manet

Young Lady in 1866

Edouard Manet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Sense of Taste, Plate from Quinque sensum typi in usum aurifabroru exarati (Images of the Five Senses Engraved for the Benefit of the Goldsmith), by Crispijn de Passe the Elder, Dutch, ca. 1565 - 1637

Sense of Taste, Plate from Quinque sensum typi in usum aurifabroru exarati (Images of the Five Senses Engraved for the Benefit of the Goldsmith)

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, Dutch, ca. 1565 - 1637 · ca. 1580

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds, by John Constable

Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds

John Constable · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Summer, by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, born Boston, MA 1851-died New York City 1938

Summer

Thomas Wilmer Dewing, born Boston, MA 1851-died New York City 1938 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait, by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Sense of Taste, by Paul Scarron, French, 1610 - 1660

Sense of Taste

Paul Scarron, French, 1610 - 1660 · mid- 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot), by Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

Public domainThe Met
Fire Screen: The Sense of Taste

Fire Screen: The Sense of Taste

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Disk Brooch

Disk Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · second half 7th century

Public domainThe Met
The Sense of Taste, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

The Sense of Taste

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play, by Jean Georges (or George)

Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play

Jean Georges (or George) · ca. 1761–62

Public domainThe Met
Le Gout, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Le Gout

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · ca. 1736-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by John Bennett

Vase

John Bennett · 1882

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taste (Gustus), from "The Five Senses", by Georg Pencz

Taste (Gustus), from "The Five Senses"

Georg Pencz

Public domainThe Met
A Moorish Smoking Room, by Emmanuel Coulange-Lautrec, French, 1824 – 1898

A Moorish Smoking Room

Emmanuel Coulange-Lautrec, French, 1824 – 1898 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fuchsia: Taste, from the series Floral Beauties and Language of Flowers (N75) for Duke brand cigarettes, by American Tobacco Company

Fuchsia: Taste, from the series Floral Beauties and Language of Flowers (N75) for Duke brand cigarettes

American Tobacco Company · 1892

Public domainThe Met
L'Ouye (Hearing) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses), by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

L'Ouye (Hearing) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1720–1770

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. 3665 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. 412055 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-02 00:23 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.