# Armand Queyroy artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:01:57.767Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1830-07-30
- Death date: 1893-03-07
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Etching and printmaking, Drawing, Illustration

## Portrait

![Armand Queyroy](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Mathurin_Louis_Armand_Queyroy_-_1855.jpeg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mathurin_Louis_Armand_Queyroy_-_1855.jpeg

## About Armand Queyroy

Armand Queyroy (1830–1893), whose full name was Mathurin Louis Armand Queyroy, was a French printmaker, etcher, draughtsman, illustrator, and art collector. Authority files and museum collection records identify him consistently, while French library data places his birth in Vendôme. His activity belongs to nineteenth-century French print culture, in which original etchings, drawings, and illustrated material circulated among collectors and institutions. Collectors may encounter his name on individual works on paper, print impressions, or catalogued illustration and engraving records. Because Queyroy worked across image-making and collecting, careful cataloguing matters: a signed drawing, an etching impression, and a work carrying an uncertain attribution are not interchangeable objects. Institutional profiles at the National Gallery of Art and British Museum, together with VIAF, IdRef, and Wikidata authority records, provide a stable identity framework for matching his full name and separating his work from similarly named makers.

## Common works and media

The strongest source evidence supports etchings and other printmaking, drawings, and illustration-related works on paper. Auction and appraisal records should be checked for the stated technique, paper, dimensions, signature or inscriptions, edition information, condition, and exact attribution wording before works are compared.

## Market and appraisal context

Queyroy's public auction evidence in the collected Appraisily source is described as thin, so appraisal should rely on close object-level comparison rather than a broad artist average. Relevant factors include medium and dimensions; date or career period; condition, restoration, and surface quality; signature or inscriptions; edition or impression details; provenance; exhibition or catalogue references; and confidence in attribution. Comparable public results are most useful when the works share the same type, subject, scale, and condition. Reported prices may differ in their treatment of buyer's premium or fees, while private sales and incomplete feeds may not appear. Any conclusion should distinguish an original etching or drawing from a reproduction, later impression, or work merely attributed to Queyroy.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity and authority records with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available.

## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/151745382
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/24609833/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2861946
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG42899
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.6797.html
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Queyroy
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/armand-queyroy/