Henri Schouten Auction Prices and Value Guide

Henri Schouten auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 214 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Henri Schouten auction prices: quick answer

Henri Schouten auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Henri Schouten
Source records
214
Market update
2026-02-16

Henri Schouten market snapshot

Henri Schouten shows solid auction liquidity with 136 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $700. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-07-27.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (63.4% · 59 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (35.5% · 33 sales)
  • $10,000+ (1.1% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$500
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
2
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-07-27

Artist context

About Henri Schouten

Born

1860

Died

1927

Nationality

Belgian

Also known as

Henry Schouten, Joseph Klaas

Henri Schouten, also identified as Henry Schouten, was a Belgian painter born in Paris in 1860 and active until 1927. He is chiefly associated with animal and landscape painting, while still lifes and genre scenes also appear in accounts of his work. Collected biographical material reports that he studied at the Brussels Academy from 1876 to 1881 and was strongly influenced by Belgian animal painter Alfred Verwee. Schouten’s subject range helps explain why collectors may encounter his name on rural landscapes, livestock compositions, and other scenes combining animals with their surroundings. The name Joseph Klaas is reported as a pseudonym, making careful reconciliation of signatures, catalogue entries, and authority records important. Public identity resources use both Henri and Henry, but they consistently describe a Belgian painter born in 1860 and deceased in 1927. The available source pack does not establish membership in a named artistic movement, so the artist is best contextualized through training, influence, nationality, and subject matter rather than a specific school.

PaintingAnimalsLandscapesStill lifesGenre scenes

Common works and media

Collectors may encounter paintings of animals, livestock in rural settings, landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes attributed to Henri or Henry Schouten. The collected sources do not document a dependable print, sculpture, ceramic, or edition practice, so works in those categories require separate evidence rather than attribution by name alone.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Schouten should begin by confirming whether the Henri Schouten, Henry Schouten, or Joseph Klaas name corresponds to the same documented artist. The work’s medium and subject also matter because the available biographical sources associate him with animal and landscape paintings as well as still lifes and genre scenes. Relevant public auction comparisons should be matched by work type and reviewed with their sale dates and realized prices. This source pack identifies an Appraisily auction-price page but does not expose lot-level condition, dimensions, provenance, estimates, or results. Those records must therefore be examined before reaching any market conclusion, and the present identity research should not be treated as a price forecast or authentication.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Animal paintings
  • Landscape paintings
  • Still-life paintings
  • Genre-scene paintings

Value drivers

  1. Strength of attribution, including reconciliation of the Henri and Henry name forms and the documented Joseph Klaas pseudonym
  2. Work type and subject, particularly whether the composition is an animal, landscape, still-life, or genre painting
  3. Comparison with relevant public auction records, including sale date and realized price, when lot-level records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected pack does not contain inspectable lot-level descriptions, dimensions, conditions, provenance, estimates, or realized prices.
  • No price trend or value range can be established from the supplied source excerpts alone.
  • Authority records were identified, but several authority pages could not be retrieved by the source collector.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, thin source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Henri Schouten

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Henri Schouten worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

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