Jacques-Louis David Auction Prices and Value Guide

Jacques-Louis David auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 339 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Jacques-Louis David auction prices: quick answer

Jacques-Louis David auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Jacques-Louis David
Source records
339
Market update
2026-02-06

Jacques-Louis David market snapshot

Jacques-Louis David shows solid auction liquidity with 123 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 8 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-07.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (25.9% · 22 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (44.7% · 38 sales)
  • $10,000+ (29.4% · 25 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$4,826
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
8
Median shift vs prior year
+7.2%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-07

Artist context

About Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David portrait
Jacques-Louis David · Public domain · Source

Born

1748

Died

1825

Nationality

French

Also known as

David, David de Paris, Citoyen David

Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) was a French painter and the leading figure associated with Neoclassicism in the supplied references. During the 1780s, his history painting helped redirect taste away from Rococo toward a more austere classical language. His career also intersected with the French Revolution and the Napoleonic period, contexts that made historical subjects central to his public reputation. Portraiture forms another important part of his documented practice, as does his self-portrait, represented here by a public-domain Wikimedia image. Collectors encounter David through museum collections, scholarly and library authority records, and auction records connected with his name. Because the name of a celebrated artist can appear in varied catalogue descriptions, entity matching should remain separate from object-level attribution. The present source pack strongly establishes David’s identity, French nationality, lifespan by year, occupation, and Neoclassical context, while leaving his exact life dates and detailed auction-category breakdown unresolved.

NeoclassicismPaintingHistory paintingPortraiture

Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter references to David as a painter, particularly in connection with Neoclassical history painting and portraiture. His documented self-portrait also confirms portrait painting within his practice. This source pack does not provide a reliable auction breakdown for original paintings, drawings, prints, workshop objects, copies, or later reproductions, so the frequency or market standing of those categories should not be generalized from the available evidence.

Market and appraisal context

The source pack confirms public auction-price coverage for Jacques-Louis David on Appraisily but does not include fetched lot-level evidence or commentary from a major auction house. Accordingly, no general price trend or category-specific premium is asserted. For an appraisal, available public records should be assessed through comparable lots, including their sale dates, realized prices, catalogued work types, and relevance to the object under review. The research supports painting, history painting, and portraiture as useful classification terms, but it does not establish a market hierarchy among them or authenticate any individual work.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings

Value drivers

  1. Comparable public auction records, including sale dates and realized prices when available
  2. Catalogued work type and subject classification

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains an Appraisily auction-price signal but no fetched lot-level records or major-auction-house commentary.
  • No price trend, category premium, attribution rule, or scarcity claim can be established from this source pack alone.
  • Artist identity research does not authenticate or attribute an individual object.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate 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 Jacques-Louis David

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Jacques-Louis David 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 Jacques-Louis David artwork?

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