Pierre Emmanuel Damoye Auction Prices and Value Guide
Pierre Emmanuel Damoye auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 187 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Pierre Emmanuel Damoye auction prices: quick answer
Pierre Emmanuel Damoye auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Pierre Emmanuel Damoye
- Source records
- 187
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Artist context
About Pierre Emmanuel Damoye
Pierre Emmanuel Eugène Damoye (1847–1916) was a French landscape painter born and based in Paris. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts, he became one of the most noted successors to the Barbizon school tradition, a movement that shifted French landscape painting toward direct observation of rural nature. Critics of his era recognized him for expansive compositions featuring wide skies, open plains dotted with trees, and luminous farmland scenes. Damoye's work bridges the pastoral realism of the mid-19th-century Barbizon painters and the looser brushwork that anticipated later plein-air movements. He also taught, counting the painter Pierre-Jacques Pelletier among his students. His paintings are recorded in major reference works including Bénézit's Dictionnaire critique and the Witt Checklist of painters. With over 280 works documented in the RKD image archive, Damoye remains a consistently catalogued figure in 19th-century French landscape painting.
Barbizon schooloil on canvaslandscapesweeping skiestree-studded plainsfarmland and rural scenes
Common works and media
Damoye worked primarily in oil on canvas. His most frequently encountered subjects are sweeping rural landscapes featuring flat or gently rolling plains under wide, expressive skies, often with groups of trees, hedgerows, and working farmland. Pastoral river scenes, village outskirts, and seasonal agricultural views are also common. Works are typically signed and range from small cabinet paintings to larger exhibition-scale canvases. Drawings and studies on paper appear less often at auction but are documented in institutional collections.
Market and appraisal context
Damoye's paintings appear regularly at auction, with nearly 190 lots recorded across public sale databases. His oil-on-canvas landscapes—typically depicting rural French plains, expansive skies, and pastoral farmland—form the bulk of what collectors encounter. Appraisal value depends on condition, canvas dimensions, compositional complexity, signature presence, and documented provenance. Works with clear Barbizon school attribution or exhibition history may carry additional collector interest. Because no single public catalogue raisonné is available, authentication relies on comparison with documented examples in institutional archives such as RKD and entries in standard reference works like Bénézit.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- 19th Century European Paintings
- Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
Value drivers
- Attribution and authentication are primary factors; works should be compared to documented examples in RKD (281 recorded images)
- Provenance linking to Barbizon school lineage may affect collector interest
- Condition, canvas size, subject complexity, and presence of signature affect appraisal value
Appraisal caveats
- No single public catalogue raisonné was identified in the source pack; attribution should reference Bénézit, Busse, and Witt Checklist entries held at RKD.
- Market data cited here draws on Appraisily/Invaluable lot records (187 total lots) and institutional references; actual auction results vary by condition, provenance, and sale context.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.
- Wikidata library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- VIAF library authority
- RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History library authority
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 Pierre Emmanuel Damoye worth?
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