# Hugues Merle - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T21:19:21.958Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 46
- Lots with prices: 33
- First auction date: 2002-11-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-24
- Median realised price: $27,500
- Price range: $1,500 to $301,000

## Market Takeaway
Hugues Merle has 46 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $27,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($27,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($9,600 to $95,000\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 27.3% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 72.7% (24 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $11,000
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-24
- Days since latest sale: 217
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 16 lots
- Christie's: 14 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- DELON\-HOEBANX: 2 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Bertolami Fine Art s.r.l.: 1 lots
- Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC: 1 lots
- Concept Art Gallery: 1 lots
- Dorotheum: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-24 | Hugues Merle \(French, 1823\-1881\) Awaiting his return | Bonhams | £15,000
2. 2025-06-24 | Hugues Merle \(attribuito a\) | Bertolami Fine Art s.r.l. | €2,800
3. 2025-05-18 | Hugues MERLE \(Le Sône 1822 \- Paris 1881\), Abraham bannissant Agar et Ismaël, Toile d'origine, Signé et daté en bas à gauche : Hugues Merle 1872, Restaurations anciennes, Provenance : Collection Joseph Craven, Londres,... | MJV Soudant | €11,000
4. 2023-10-24 | Hugues Merle | Dorotheum | €55,000
5. 2022-12-08 | Hugues Merle \(French, 1823\-1881\) Couronne de fleurs des champs \(Crown of field f | Heritage Auctions | N/A
6. 2022-02-22 | Hugues Merle \(French, 1822\-1881\) Couronne de Fleurs des Champs \(Field Flower Wreath\) | Freeman's \| Hindman | N/A
7. 2021-04-21 | Hugues Merle \(French, 1823\-1881\) Thoughts of the Future oil on canvas, unfr | Christie's | $27,500
8. 2020-11-22 | HUGUES MERLE \(French, 1823\-1881\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | $3,800
9. 2019-09-28 | Hugues Merle pastel Mother and Child with Flowers | Concept Art Gallery | $2,500
10. 2019-02-01 | HUGUES MERLE \| Affection | Sotheby's | N/A
11. 2019-02-01 | HUGUES MERLE \| The Forgotten  | Sotheby's | $70,000
12. 2018-10-31 | Hugues Merle \(French, 1823\-1881\) \- Faith | Christie's | N/A
13. 2018-05-22 | HUGUES MERLE \| Hamlet and Ophelia | Sotheby's | $250,000
14. 2018-04-18 | Hugues Merle \(French, 1823\-1881\) \- Contes enfantines | Christie's | $125,000
15. 2018-02-01 | HUGUES MERLE \| Mother and Child | Sotheby's | $9,500
16. 2017-10-31 | Hugues Merle \(French, 1823\-1881\) \- Faith | Christie's | N/A
17. 2017-10-31 | Hugues Merle \(French, 1823\-1881\) \- Bathsebée | Christie's | $93,750
18. 2017-10-01 | HUGUES MERLE \(1823\-1881\) PORTRAIT, GIRL OF ETRETAT | Austin Auction Gallery | $24,000
19. 2017-06-02 | Hugues MERLE \(1823\-1881\) Enfants à la charette et au chien Huile sur t | DELON\-HOEBANX | €1,500
20. 2017-05-24 | HUGUES MERLE \| Baigneuse  | Sotheby's | $95,000
21. 2017-02-07 | Hugues Merle \(French, 1823\-1881\) Two Children oil on canvas 59 7/8 x 32 | Christie's | $27,500
22. 2016-12-02 | Hugues MERLE \(1823\-1881\) Enfants à la charette et au chien. Huile sur t | DELON\-HOEBANX | N/A
23. 2015-06-17 | HUGUES MERLE \| Le songe d'Hébé ou Hébé après la chute | Sotheby's | €123,000
24. 2014-06-21 | HUGUES MERLE \(French, 1823\-1881\) Mary Magdalene in the | Heritage Auctions | $27,500

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