Paul Désiré Trouillebert Auction Prices and Value Guide

Paul Désiré Trouillebert auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 624 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Paul Désiré Trouillebert auction prices: quick answer

Paul Désiré Trouillebert auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Paul Désiré Trouillebert
Source records
624
Market update
2026-02-16

Paul Désiré Trouillebert market snapshot

Paul Désiré Trouillebert shows deep auction liquidity with 356 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 33 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-22.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (22.0% · 49 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (64.1% · 143 sales)
  • $10,000+ (13.9% · 31 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$3,200
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
33
Median shift vs prior year
+33.3%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-22

Artist context

About Paul Désiré Trouillebert

Paul Désiré Trouillebert (1829 or 1831–1900) was a French painter associated with the Barbizon School, recognized for atmospheric landscapes, portraits, and orientalist genre scenes. Active in Paris during the second half of the nineteenth century, Trouillebert produced a substantial body of work—over 1,200 paintings catalogued in the authoritative Marumo-Maier-Müllerschön Catalogue Raisonné, with additional works identified in the ongoing online supplement. His landscapes, often depicting riverbanks, forest interiors, and rural French scenery, reflect the Barbizon tradition of painting directly from nature with a muted, tonal palette. Beyond landscapes, he completed portraits and orientalist subjects, demonstrating considerable range. Trouillebert's paintings are held in major public collections including the Musée d'Orsay, the Hermitage Museum, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. His connection to the Barbizon movement places him among the artists who shaped the transition from academic tradition toward Impressionist landscape painting.

Barbizon Schooloil paintingwatercolorgouachelandscapesportraitsorientalist genre scenes

Common works and media

Trouillebert's most frequently encountered works are oil paintings on canvas or panel, predominantly landscapes featuring river scenes, forest interiors, and rural French countryside. He also worked in watercolor and gouache. Common subjects include views of the Loire River, woodland paths, bathers at riverbanks, and pastoral settings with figures. Portraits and orientalist genre paintings form a smaller but notable portion of his output. Many works are moderate in scale, suitable for the private collector market, though larger exhibition-scale landscapes also exist. Signed works typically bear "Trouillebert" in the lower corner. His palette tends toward muted earth tones, silvery grays, and soft greens characteristic of Barbizon landscape painting.

Market and appraisal context

Paul Désiré Trouillebert maintains an active but dispersed secondary market. The Appraisily auction-record index tracks 379 lots attributed to the artist, of which 241 carry a recorded realized price. Prices span a wide range from $5 to $420,000, with a median of $3,400 and an interquartile range of $1,000–$7,000, indicating that most works trade in the low-to-mid thousands while exceptional, well-documented landscapes can reach six figures. The most recent 12-month period shows 24 lots, down from 31 in the prior period, suggesting a modest softening in liquidity. Major houses that have offered Trouillebert include Christie's, Bonhams, Koller Auctions, Osenat, Millon & Associés, Neumeister, Heritage Auctions, and Hampel Fine Art Auctions. The breadth of houses across France, Switzerland, Germany, the UK, and North America reflects established international demand for Barbizon School landscapes. Oil-on-canvas landscapes—particularly river scenes, forest interiors, and pastoral views—are the dominant category. Portraits and orientalist subjects appear less frequently at auction and tend to attract a narrower buyer pool.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • oil painting
  • watercolor
  • gouache
  • Old Master & 19th-century paintings
  • Barbizon School landscapes

Value drivers

  1. [object Object]

Appraisal caveats

  • Attribution should be verified against the Marumo-Maier-Müllerschön Catalogue Raisonné. Unsigned or undocumented works require specialist examination.
  • With over 1,200 catalogued works, Trouillebert was a prolific artist; not all works carry equal market interest.
  • The birth year remains disputed (1829 vs. 1831) across authority files, which does not affect appraisal but may appear in cataloguing.
  • [object Object]

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.

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 Paul Désiré Trouillebert

LLM summary index · LLM full index

Artist value FAQ

How much is Paul Désiré Trouillebert 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 Paul Désiré Trouillebert artwork?

Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.