Pietro Scoppetta Auction Prices and Value Guide
Pietro Scoppetta auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 246 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Pietro Scoppetta auction prices: quick answer
Pietro Scoppetta auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Pietro Scoppetta
- Source records
- 246
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Pietro Scoppetta market snapshot
Pietro Scoppetta shows solid auction liquidity with 137 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 12 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-19.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (48.4% · 45 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (48.4% · 45 sales)
- $10,000+ (3.2% · 3 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $300
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 12
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-11-19
Artist context
About Pietro Scoppetta
Born
1863
Died
1920
Nationality
Italian
Also known as
Pietro Scappetta
Pietro Scoppetta (1863–1920) was an Italian painter and illustrator born in Amalfi and associated with the artistic settings of Naples and Paris during the Belle Époque. Authority records describe him as a painter of genre scenes, figures, portraits, and landscapes, as well as a watercolorist, draftsman, and illustrator. A collected secondary source characterizes his approach as Impressionist and records his use of oil and pastel, although that stylistic label is not confirmed here by a museum or scholarly authority. His documented activity also includes book illustration, with watercolors reproduced for Marcel Prévost’s Lettres de femmes. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on paintings and works on paper spanning landscape, figurative, portrait, and genre subjects. The surname variant Scappetta appears in library authority data and can help connect signatures, catalog entries, and historical references. Multiple international authority records provide a stable identity foundation, while his detailed chronology, training, and exhibition history remain less fully documented in the collected sources.
Oil paintingPastelWatercolorDrawingGenre scenesFiguresPortraitsLandscapes
Common works and media
Works encountered under Scoppetta’s name may include oil paintings, pastels, watercolors, drawings, and published illustrations. Documented subjects include landscapes, portraits, figures, and genre scenes. Because the variant surname Scappetta appears in authority records, both spellings may be relevant when checking signatures, historical catalogs, bibliographic references, and comparable auction records.
Market and appraisal context
Appraisal should begin by identifying the work type and medium: the collected records associate Scoppetta with oil, pastel, watercolor, drawing, and illustration. Subject classification also matters because the authority record identifies genre scenes, figures, portraits, and landscapes. Appraisily provides an auction-record context, but the collected pack contains no major-auction-house biography or individual lot essay supporting claims about price direction, rarity, or premiums for particular categories. A defensible comparison should use public sales of genuinely comparable works and independently verify attribution, dimensions, date, signature, condition, and provenance from the object and its documentation. Those object-specific details are not established by the identity sources summarized here.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings, including oils
- Pastels and watercolors
- Drawings and illustrations
Value drivers
- Work type and medium, including distinctions among oil, pastel, watercolor, drawing, and illustration
- Subject classification, particularly genre scenes, figures, portraits, and landscapes
- Comparison with public auction records for works sharing a closely related medium and subject
- Catalog identity and variant-surname matching between Scoppetta and Scappetta
Appraisal caveats
- The collected source pack contains no individual major-auction-house lot essay or lot-level record from which to infer price direction, rarity, or a category premium.
- Object-specific attribution, dimensions, signature, date, condition, and provenance require verification from the work and its documentation.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
- IdRef library authority
- VIAF library authority
- Wikidata library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Appraisily appraisily artist page
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 Pietro Scoppetta 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 Pietro Scoppetta artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.