# Angelo Asti artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:20:03.184Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian, French
- Common media: Painting

## About Angelo Asti

Angelo Asti was a nineteenth-century painter whose identity is represented in both Italian and French reference contexts. Authority records generally give his lifespan as 1847–1903, although one biographical source reports a January 1848 birth date; the exact birth date therefore remains unsettled. VIAF classifies Asti as a painter, portraitist, figure artist, still-life artist, and genre artist. Those classifications, together with the available biographical summaries, indicate a practice centered on portraits, idealized figures and nudes, with still-life and genre subjects also associated with his name. The collected evidence does not securely connect him to a named artistic movement, so his work is better described through documented subject categories than through an inferred school. Collectors may encounter Asti through paintings offered under his full name or the abbreviated form A. Asti, as well as through recurring public auction records requiring careful identity matching.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Angelo Asti most commonly enter reference and auction contexts as paintings, particularly portraits and idealized figure or nude compositions. Authority data also identifies still-life and genre painting as parts of his practice. An abbreviated signature or catalogue listing such as A. Asti may appear, but the name form should be evaluated alongside the work itself and the supporting record rather than treated as proof of authorship.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Angelo Asti should begin by establishing that the artist identity and subject correspond to his documented practice. Portraits, figure and nude paintings, still lifes, and genre subjects are supported by authority records, but a familiar subject alone does not establish authorship. Relevant public auction records can provide comparison points when their artist attribution, work type, sale date, and lot details are sufficiently similar. The present source pack does not include an accessible major-auction-house catalogue entry or enough evidence to support price forecasts, market momentum claims, or a record-price statement. Nationality labels and the reported birth year also vary between sources and should not be used as shortcuts for attribution.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Source conflicts and gaps are retained rather than resolved by unsupported assumptions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21083719
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500088783
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96326386/
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/34727933/
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Asti
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Asti
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/angelo-asti/
