Percival Leonard Rosseau Auction Prices and Value Guide
Percival Leonard Rosseau auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 176 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Percival Leonard Rosseau auction prices: quick answer
Percival Leonard Rosseau auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Percival Leonard Rosseau
- Source records
- 176
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Percival Leonard Rosseau market snapshot
Percival Leonard Rosseau shows solid auction liquidity with 95 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $24,200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 7 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-07.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (13.6% · 11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (22.2% · 18 sales)
- $10,000+ (64.2% · 52 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $9,500
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 7
- Median shift vs prior year
- +72.7%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-12-07
Artist context
About Percival Leonard Rosseau
Born
1859
Died
1937
Nationality
American
Also known as
P. L. Rosseau
Percival Leonard Rosseau (1859–1937) was an American painter whose identity and life years are consistently recorded by Wikidata and the VIAF authority network, with an associated Getty ULAN record. Public artwork records in the collected evidence show a particular emphasis on dogs, especially pointers, depicted individually or in landscape settings. One documented example, Two Pointers, is identified as a signed and dated 1923 oil on canvas; another record describes a painting of a Pekingese. These examples explain why collectors may encounter Rosseau in animal-art and sporting-art contexts. The authority records also preserve the abbreviated name P. L. Rosseau, which can assist entity matching and signature research. The available sources do not establish a named movement, school, complete exhibition history, or detailed biography, so those associations should not be inferred without stronger museum, archival, or catalogue evidence.
PaintingOil on canvasDogsPointersPekingese dogsDogs in landscape settings
Common works and media
The available public examples are paintings of dogs, particularly pointers and a Pekingese. Documented compositions include a single pointer in a landscape and two-pointer scenes, with at least one signed and dated work recorded as oil on canvas. The limited source pack does not establish whether prints, drawings, editions, sculptures, or other media form a meaningful part of Rosseau's auction market.
Market and appraisal context
Rosseau's market should be assessed work by work rather than through a general price prediction. The collected records indicate that cataloguing details may include the depicted dog breed, number of animals, landscape setting, dimensions, oil-on-canvas support, signature, date, and ownership or prior-sale information. These characteristics can help identify genuinely comparable lots. Condition, attribution status, provenance, and the quality of the composition should also be verified for the individual object before drawing conclusions. This source pack does not include accessible realized-price records or condition reports from major auction houses, so current valuation requires comparison with verified public sales that closely match the work being appraised.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings
- Animal and sporting-dog paintings
- Oil paintings on canvas
Value drivers
- Attribution, signature, and inscription details
- Creation date or documented period
- Medium and support
- Dimensions and composition
- Dog breed, number of animals, and landscape setting
- Documented provenance and prior-sale labels
Appraisal caveats
- The collected source pack does not provide accessible major-auction-house result pages, realized prices, condition reports, or a catalogue raisonné.
- The available artwork records establish examples of subject matter and medium but are not sufficient to define the artist's entire body of work or predict value.
- Any appraisal should compare the specific work with verified public sales matched for attribution, date, medium, dimensions, subject, provenance, and condition.
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
- Appraisily appraisily artist page
- Wikimedia Commons artwork record
- Wikimedia Commons artwork record
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 Percival Leonard Rosseau 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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