# Prosper Mérimée - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T23:57:35.902Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 13
- Lots with prices: 9
- First auction date: 2009-04-20
- Latest auction date: 2026-02-04
- Median realised price: $408
- Price range: $120 to $3,200

## Market Takeaway
Prosper Mérimée has 13 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $408. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($408\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($150 to $750\) 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: 77.8% (7 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 22.2% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $500
- Previous 12 months median: $150
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2026-02-04
- Days since latest sale: 86
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Ader: 5 lots
- Arenberg Auctions: 3 lots
- Alde: 1 lots
- Artcurial: 1 lots
- Market Auctions: 1 lots
- PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers: 1 lots
- Piasa: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2026-02-04 | Prosper Mérimée "The Writings of Prosper Mérimée" Complete 8 Volume Set | Market Auctions | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-prosper-merimee-the-writings-of-prosper-merimee-complete-8-volume-set-176a-c-7910c85011
2. 2025-12-12 | Lettres libres à Stendhal avec neuf lithographies par G. Roux. | Arenberg Auctions | €500
3. 2025-04-03 | \[Oeuvres\]. | Arenberg Auctions | €250
4. 2024-10-11 | La double méprise. Par l'auteur du théatre \[sic\] de Clara Gazul. | Arenberg Auctions | €150
5. 2020-05-29 | Prosper MÉRIMÉE \(Paris 1803 \- Cannes 1870\) Rébus avec chats et lion | Ader | €750
6. 2020-05-29 | Prosper MÉRIMÉE \(Paris 1803 \- Cannes 1870\) Étude de chats, crocodile et autres animaux | Ader | N/A
7. 2017-06-14 | Prosper MÉRIMÉE 1803\-1870 Mosaïque | Artcurial | N/A
8. 2013-12-05 | Carmen | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $120
9. 2013-11-20 | Prosper MÉRIMÉE \(1803\-1870\) | Piasa | €408
10. 2013-06-27 | Prosper MÉRIMÉE \(1803\-1870\). 3 dessins originaux à | Ader | N/A
11. 2013-02-21 | Prosper mérimée \(1803\-1870\) | Ader | €3,200
12. 2012-06-14 | Prosper MÉRIMÉE \(1803\-1870\) écrivain L.A.S., 8 | Ader | €150
13. 2009-04-20 | Prosper Mérimée \(1803\-1870\). Dessin original à l'encre brune | Alde | €2,800

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