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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Design for a Pulpit
Louis Gustave Taraval · 18th century

L’ORDRE IONIQUE
Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

Design for a Pulpit
Louis Gustave Taraval · 18th century

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

Design for the Fireworks Display in Paris for the Birth of the Dauphin in 1781
Louis Gustave Taraval · 1781

L’ORDRE COMPOSIT
Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

Design for a Neoclassical Building, Thought to be a School of Arts for the City of Stockholm
Louis Gustave Taraval · ca. 1770–94

L’ORDRE DORIQUE
Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

Design for a Canopy Bed in an Alcove
Anonymous, French, 18th century · ca. 1770–90

LES ORDRES CORINTHIEN ET IONIQUE
Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

LES ORDRES DORIQUE ET CORINTHIEN
Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

PLUSIEURS PORTAILS ET PORTES Composés et Gravés par L.G Taraval
Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1768–75

Frontispiece with Portrait Medallion, Recueil d’Ornemens
Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1777

Triumphal Arch with the Royal Swedish Coat of Arms
Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794 · 1767

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

PIED-D’ESTAL circulaire, surmonté de deux enfans tenant une corbeille
Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791

PIED-D’ESTAL circulaire, surmonté de deux enfans tenant une corbeille
Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777 · ca. 1791
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.