# Alexandre Calame artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/alexandre-calame/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:12:21.267Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1810-05-28
- Death date: 1864-03-19
- Nationality: Swiss
- Movements: Düsseldorf School
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Alexandre Calame](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Alexandre_Calame.jpg)
Jules Hébert · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexandre_Calame.jpg

## About Alexandre Calame

Alexandre Calame (1810–1864) was a Swiss painter known primarily for landscapes. The source pack links his identity across Wikidata and several major authority systems, including Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, GND, ISNI, IdRef, RKD, and BnF. Its biographical material identifies him as a landscape painter, while a secondary source associates him with the Düsseldorf School. That association is useful historical context, although the museum profiles collected by the harness did not provide fetched biographical text that could strengthen the classification. Collectors encounter Calame through landscape paintings and through auction records indexed under his name. The supplied Appraisily artist record contains 789 entries, indicating a meaningful body of market data for comparison. Because the source pack does not summarize those individual lots, this profile does not infer object-level authorship, medium, date, condition, or provenance from the artist name alone. Those distinctions should be established from the work and its documentation.

## Common works and media

Landscape paintings are the only common work type directly supported by the collected biographical material. The source pack does not provide enough evidence to characterize recurring print, drawing, sculpture, ceramic, poster, or edition categories, so those categories should not be assigned to Calame without object-level documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

The supplied Appraisily record indicates 789 auction entries associated with Alexandre Calame, so relevant public results may help frame an appraisal when matched carefully to the object under review. Within this source pack, the securely supported artistic context is Swiss landscape painting, with a secondary association to the Düsseldorf School. Comparability should begin with records that genuinely concern Calame and share the documented landscape context. The pack does not include fetched major-auction-house lot descriptions or results, so it cannot substantiate detailed claims about medium-specific premiums, subject hierarchies, condition effects, provenance, date, dimensions, or market direction. Those factors require review of the individual object and its underlying auction records before any valuation conclusion is made.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q621994
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500023774
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/9966326/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88617561
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG21676
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.21261.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Calame
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/alexandre-calame/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexandre_Calame.jpg