French architect and printmaker, part of a family of artists, son of Guillaume-Thomas Taraval who mainly worked as a painter at the Royal Palace.

In 1754, Louis-Gustave Taraval traveled to Paris, where he served as inspector for the Bâtiments du Roi. In Paris, he devoted himself to architecture and was mainly occupied with the teaching of the art of building. He also executed engravings after the paintings his father, Gustave Moreau and Louis Jean Desprez. In 1781 he proposed a design for King Gustav III for a new city hall that was supposed to be erected on the north side of the then Norrmalms Square (today Gustav Adolf Square) in Stockholm.