Ippolito Caffi Auction Prices and Value Guide
Ippolito Caffi auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 180 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Ippolito Caffi auction prices: quick answer
Ippolito Caffi auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Ippolito Caffi
- Source records
- 180
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Ippolito Caffi market snapshot
Ippolito Caffi shows solid auction liquidity with 80 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $11,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-05-17.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (8.6% · 5 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (37.9% · 22 sales)
- $10,000+ (53.4% · 31 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $5,200
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 4
- Median shift vs prior year
- +100.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-05-17
Artist context
About Ippolito Caffi
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Born
1809
Died
1866
Nationality
Italian
Ippolito Caffi (1809–1866) was an Italian painter associated in the collected records with architectural subjects, seascapes, and urban vedute. Public authority files maintained by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and IdRef provide a stable identity framework for matching his name across collections and catalogues. The available work-title evidence is especially connected with Italian places: VIAF records include views of Rome, the Roman Campagna, Venice, Genoa, Naples, monuments, aqueducts, and public events. This combination of recognizable sites, expansive city views, maritime settings, and historically specific scenes helps explain why collectors may encounter Caffi through landscape, architectural-view, and nineteenth-century Italian painting categories. The collected material does not establish a single movement or school strongly enough to assign one here. It instead supports describing him through his period, medium, and recurring subject matter while leaving more detailed stylistic classification to fuller museum or scholarly sources.
PaintingArchitectural subjectsUrban veduteSeascapesViews of Rome and the Roman Campagna
Common works and media
The collected sources most clearly support paintings depicting architectural subjects, urban vedute, seascapes, and Italian landscapes. Named records include Roman monuments and aqueducts, views across the Roman Campagna, Venetian settings, the Bay of Genoa, Naples, and scenes connected with public or historical events. When cataloguing a possible Caffi work, record the medium, support, dimensions, inscriptions, labels, depicted location, and any date or event clues. The present evidence does not establish prints, editions, drawings, or other formats as common auction categories, so those object types should be assessed individually rather than assumed.
Market and appraisal context
An appraisal of a work attributed to Caffi should begin with the object itself: its medium and format, depicted place or event, apparent date, attribution wording, physical condition, and documented ownership history. The available authority records show that titles associated with him range from Roman monuments and Campagna landscapes to Venetian scenes, seascapes, and historically specific public events, making subject identification useful when selecting comparisons. Public auction results can provide additional context, but comparisons should match the work type and subject as closely as possible and should be reviewed by sale date and realized result. This source pack does not provide enough lot-level evidence to support a price prediction or market-trend claim.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings
- Urban vedute and architectural views
- Seascape paintings
Value drivers
- Depicted city, monument, landscape, or historical subject
- Work type and medium
- Date and identification of a depicted historical event
- Comparable public auction results
Appraisal caveats
- The collected source pack does not expose detailed lot-level condition, provenance, dimensions, attribution wording, or realized-price data.
- No major-auction-house biography or individual auction-lot record was collected, so the market guidance is deliberately limited.
- An appraisal should distinguish a securely attributed work from a copy, later imitation, or work merely associated with the artist; the source pack does not provide object-specific authentication evidence.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
- Wikidata library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- VIAF library authority
- IdRef library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Appraisily appraisily artist page
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.
Artist value FAQ
How much is Ippolito Caffi 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.
Can Appraisily value my Ippolito Caffi artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.