# Auguste-Joseph Bracquemond artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/auguste-joseph-bracquemond/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:26:36.401Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Movements: Nineteenth-century French etching revival, Impressionist-era French art
- Common media: Etching, Printmaking, Painting, Ceramics and porcelain decoration, Engraving and woodcut

## Portrait

![Auguste-Joseph Bracquemond](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/F%C3%A9lix_Bracquemond_by_Nadar.jpg)
Nadar · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F%C3%A9lix_Bracquemond_by_Nadar.jpg

## About Auguste-Joseph Bracquemond

Auguste-Joseph Bracquemond, better known as Félix Bracquemond, was a French painter, etcher, printmaker, and ceramicist who lived from 1833 to 1914. Authority records preserve several versions of his name, including Joseph Auguste Bracquemond and Félix Henri Bracquemond, making identity normalization especially useful when researching his work. He is associated with the nineteenth-century revival of etching in France and with the broader artistic world surrounding the Impressionist generation. Accounts of his career emphasize both his own printmaking and his encouragement of other artists to explore etching. His practice was not confined to paper: museum and authority sources also identify painting and ceramic work, while additional references describe engraving, woodcut, and porcelain decoration. Collectors may therefore encounter Bracquemond under different names and in materially distinct categories, ranging from graphic works to paintings and decorated ceramics. Those differences should remain explicit when matching an object to catalogues or auction records.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Bracquemond’s name can include etchings and other prints, paintings, and ceramic or porcelain objects. Reference sources also identify engraving and woodcut within his broader practice. Because the collected material does not establish a reliable subject taxonomy, named-series list, or edition catalogue, classification should begin with the physical medium and object type rather than an assumed subject or series. Searches should include Félix Bracquemond as well as Auguste-Joseph and Joseph Auguste Bracquemond.

## Market and appraisal context

Researching Bracquemond’s market begins with confirming the artist identity, because authority sources record several forms of his name. Comparisons should then remain within the relevant object type: an etching or other print should not be treated as directly equivalent to a painting or ceramic work. Appraisily’s public artist page provides a location for auction records associated with the normalized identity, allowing sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots to be considered when suitable records are available. The collected source pack does not supply lot-level auction-house analysis, however, so it cannot support a price trend or prediction. Attribution, dimensions, date, condition, provenance, and any edition or impression details must be established from the individual object and supporting documentation before selecting meaningful comparables.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine normalized artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile distinguishes authority-supported facts from market questions that require object-level and sale-level evidence.

## Sources

- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500023048
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q633574
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/64059337/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Bracquemond
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Bracquemond
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Bracquemond
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/auguste-joseph-bracquemond/
