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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 “Louis Gustave Taraval” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:30 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 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 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 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
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 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
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
Louis Gueymard (1822–1880) as Robert le Diable, by Gustave Courbet

Louis Gueymard (1822–1880) as Robert le Diable

Gustave Courbet · 1857

Public domainThe Met
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
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

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
Young Ladies of the Village, by Gustave Courbet

Young Ladies of the Village

Gustave Courbet · 1851–52

Public domainThe Met
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
Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910), by Gustave Courbet

Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910)

Gustave Courbet · ca. 1852–57

Public domainThe Met
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
Madame Frederic Breyer (Fanny Hélène Van Bruyssel, 1830–1894), by Gustave Courbet

Madame Frederic Breyer (Fanny Hélène Van Bruyssel, 1830–1894)

Gustave Courbet · 1858

Public domainThe Met
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
The Woman in the Waves, by Gustave Courbet

The Woman in the Waves

Gustave Courbet · 1868

Public domainThe Met
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
Woman with a Parrot, by Gustave Courbet

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
POELE élégant en forme de pied-d’estal, surmonté d’un grouppe de figures de femmes portant une corbeille, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

POELE élégant en forme de pied-d’estal, surmonté d’un grouppe de figures de femmes portant une corbeille

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fishing Boat, by Gustave Courbet

The Fishing Boat

Gustave Courbet · 1865

Public domainThe Met
PIED-D’ESTAL surmonté d’un trépied dans le genre antique, ou de tel autre ornement qu’on desirera, by Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777

PIED-D’ESTAL surmonté d’un trépied dans le genre antique, ou de tel autre ornement qu’on desirera

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. 199 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 49711 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 2026-08-29 00:30 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.