# Alberto Pasini artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1826-09-02
- Death date: 1899-12-15
- Nationality: Italian
- Movements: Orientalism, Late Romanticism
- Common media: oil painting, lithography, watercolor, pastel

## About Alberto Pasini

Alberto Pasini (1826–1899) was an Italian painter, lithographer, pastelist, and watercolorist born in Busseto, Italy. He is best known for Orientalist subjects rendered in a late-Romantic style, depicting scenes from the Middle East and Ottoman-influenced regions with atmospheric light and architectural detail. Pasini's work fits within the broader nineteenth-century European Orientalist movement, in which artists traveled to or imagined Near Eastern settings and brought those visions to Western audiences. His paintings are held in museum and private collections across Europe, and the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History records over 360 works attributed to him. He died in Kobarid in 1899.

## Common works and media

Collectors and appraisers most frequently encounter Pasini's oil paintings of Orientalist street scenes, market views, and architectural subjects set in the Near East. He also produced watercolors, pastels, and lithographs in similar subjects. Print multiples and reproductive lithographs after his compositions exist and should be distinguished from original works.

## Market and appraisal context

Pasini's works appear regularly in auctions of nineteenth-century European and Orientalist paintings. Oil-on-canvas compositions with recognizably Middle Eastern or Ottoman subject matter tend to attract the strongest collector interest. Watercolors, pastels, and lithographs are less rare and generally realize lower prices. Provenance, condition, and whether a work can be linked to Pasini's documented travels or exhibition history can meaningfully affect appraisal value. Attribution should be verified against scholarly sources, as Orientalist works from this era are occasionally misattributed between contemporaries.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research from authority files, museum records, and library catalogs with auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This page draws on data from the Getty Union List of Artist Names, VIAF, the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, and Wikidata.

## Sources

- RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/61975
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/42113210/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500001307
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2831817
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Pasini
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91041236