Karel DuJardin Auction Prices and Value Guide

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Artist
Karel DuJardin
Source records
600
Market update
2026-02-06

Artist context

About Karel DuJardin

Karel DuJardin (1622–1678) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draftsman celebrated for his refined Italianate landscapes. Active during the seventeenth century, DuJardin spent two extended periods in Italy—at the outset and near the end of his career—and this experience deeply shaped his artistic vision. While he occasionally produced portraits and religious history paintings, the majority of his output consists of small, elegantly composed landscape scenes featuring animals, peasants, and pastoral settings bathed in warm Mediterranean light. His landscape etchings likewise reflect a distinctly Italian sensibility. The RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History records him as a North Netherlandish decorative painter of interiors, print artist, painter, and draftsperson, underscoring the breadth of his practice. Today collectors and scholars recognize DuJardin as one of the more accomplished Italianate landscapists of the Dutch Golden Age.

Dutch Golden AgeItalianate landscape paintingoil paintingetchingdrawingdecorative interior paintingItalianate landscapes with animals and peasantsgenre scenesportraitsreligious history paintings

Common works and media

DuJardin is most commonly represented at auction by small oil-on-panel or oil-on-canvas Italianate landscape paintings depicting pastoral scenes with livestock, herdsmen, and rural architecture set against rolling hills. He also produced landscape etchings in notable quantity, many with Italian settings, which circulate widely in the prints market. A smaller number of portraits, religious subjects, and decorative interior paintings are attributed to him. Drawings in chalk, wash, and ink appear less frequently but are held in major museum collections.

Market and appraisal context

Karel DuJardin's auction market is active and well-established, with 174 lots tracked by Appraisily across nearly three decades (1997–2026). Of those, 87 carry realized prices. The price distribution is wide and strongly tiered by medium and attribution. Prints and etchings dominate the lower end, typically realizing between $12 and $300, while autograph oil paintings—especially the refined Italianate landscapes for which DuJardin is celebrated—command significantly more. The median price across all priced lots is $850, with the 75th percentile at $5,000 and the maximum at $63,650. A standout recent result is the £50,000 realized at Bonhams in July 2025 for an Italianate river landscape with herders and animals by a bridge, confirming that top-tier paintings remain highly sought after. Liquidity has increased: 16 lots appeared in the most recent 12 months compared with 9 in the prior 12 months. Major houses handling DuJardin include Christie's, Sotheby's, Bonhams, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Dorotheum, and Tajan, alongside numerous regional firms. A notable portion of recent lots are copies after, follower works, or attributions, which trade at substantially lower levels than securely attributed paintings.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Old Master Paintings
  • Old Master Prints and Drawings
  • oil painting
  • etching
  • drawing

Value drivers

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Appraisal caveats

  • No specific auction records or price data were available in the source pack; market observations are general to the artist's known output and Old Master category norms.
  • The birth year is disputed in some scholarship (1622 vs. 1628), which can complicate dating of early works.
  • A significant proportion of recent auction lots are copies after, follower works, or attributions rather than securely autograph works. These trade at much lower levels and should not be used as comparables for authenticated paintings.
  • The birth year is disputed in scholarship (1622 vs. 1626/1628), which appears in lot cataloguing and can complicate dating of early works and attribution arguments.

Evidence

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Data basis

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