# Auguste Allongé artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/auguste-allonge/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:09:29.583Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1833-03-19
- Death date: 1898-07-04
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Watercolor, Drawing, Engraving, Pastel, Illustration

## Portrait

![Auguste Allongé](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Auguste_Allong%C3%A9.jpg)
Petit Pierre · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Auguste_Allong%C3%A9.jpg

## About Auguste Allongé

Auguste Allongé (1833–1898) was a French artist whose documented activities span painting, watercolor, drawing, illustration, engraving, and pastel. Landscape is the clearest subject specialization identified in the collected sources. His varied practice means that collectors may encounter his name across several cataloguing categories, including landscape paintings, works on paper, and engraved images. Authority records in Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, IdRef, and national-library systems provide a useful identity bridge between multilingual collection catalogues and auction records. The available evidence does not establish a specific named movement or school, so the most reliable context is nineteenth-century French landscape practice rather than a narrower stylistic label. Allongé's combination of painterly and graphic roles also helps explain why works associated with him may differ substantially in technique and format. Careful identification should therefore begin with the object's medium, inscriptions, attribution, and relationship to documented landscape work.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Allongé should be organized around his documented activities as a landscape painter, watercolorist, draftsman, engraver, illustrator, and pastellist. Auction and appraisal contexts may therefore include landscape paintings, watercolor or pastel sheets, drawings, and engraved works. Medium should be verified from the object itself because these categories have different production methods and should not be treated as interchangeable comparables.

## Market and appraisal context

When appraising a work attributed to Allongé, first identify its medium and technique: a painting, watercolor, drawing, pastel, or engraving should be compared with records from the same category. Landscape subject matter is associated with the artist in the collected sources, but subject alone cannot establish authorship. Condition, dimensions, date, inscriptions, signature, provenance, and the strength of attribution should be documented before selecting comparable sales. Public auction results are most useful when the comparable lots match the work type, subject, scale, condition, and attribution and state the sale date and currency. The source pack confirms an Appraisily auction-record signal but does not include itemized lot evidence or a major-auction-house biography, so no price trend should be inferred from the identity records alone.

## 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. Identity sources establish who the artist was; item-level auction evidence is required for market comparisons.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2871026
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500003084
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/61534407/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/181052415
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Allong%C3%A9
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Allong%C3%A9
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Allong%C3%A9
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/auguste-allonge/