Raffaello Sorbi Auction Prices and Value Guide

Raffaello Sorbi auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 188 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

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Raffaello Sorbi auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Raffaello Sorbi
Source records
188
Market update
2026-02-16

Artist context

About Raffaello Sorbi

Raffaello Sorbi (1844–1931) was an Italian painter born and based in Florence, best known for narrative and genre paintings that depict historical, religious, and everyday scenes with careful compositional detail. He trained under the Swiss-Italian painter Antonio Ciseri, a prominent Florentine academic artist, and later taught Umberto Brunelleschi. Sorbi's subject range was broad, encompassing history painting, landscapes, portraits, interior views, animal subjects, and Christian religious scenes. His work reflects the academic traditions of late-19th-century Florence rather than the contemporary avant-garde movements taking hold elsewhere in Europe. With over 180 documented auction appearances, Sorbi's paintings are encountered regularly in the European Old Master and 19th-century painting market.

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Common works and media

Sorbi worked primarily in oil on canvas and panel. Common subjects include multi-figure narrative history scenes, genre interiors, landscapes with animals, religious compositions, and portraits. Works titled in the VIAF record include scenes such as depictions of bacchanals and carriage scenes set in Rome. Collectors may also encounter cabinet-size genre paintings depicting everyday Italian life, as well as larger Salon-scale historical compositions.

Market and appraisal context

Raffaello Sorbi's paintings appear regularly at auction, primarily in 19th-century European painting and Italian School sales. His narrative history paintings and detailed genre scenes tend to attract the strongest collector interest. When evaluating a Sorbi work for appraisal, key factors include the subject's narrative complexity, the painting's scale and condition, the quality of provenance documentation, and any links to Florentine or Italian gallery histories. Attribution should be confirmed by an expert familiar with Florentine academic painting of the period, as stylistic overlap with contemporaries is possible.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Appraisal caveats

  • No specific movement affiliation is documented in the available sources; Sorbi worked in a Florentine academic tradition under Antonio Ciseri rather than aligning with a named avant-garde movement
  • Market data in this research is limited to auction-category inference and documented lot volume; no realized price records were available in the source pack

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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Data basis

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Artist value FAQ

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