# Auguste Moreau artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/auguste-moreau/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T09:56:37.861Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1834-02-22
- Death date: 1917-11-11
- Nationality: French
- Common media: sculpture

## About Auguste Moreau

Auguste Moreau (1834–1917) was a French sculptor whose identity and life years are consistently represented in Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and Art UK. The French-language Wikipedia record supplies the more specific dates of 22 February 1834 and 11 November 1917, although those dates are not independently detailed by the institution-grade excerpts in this source pack. The collected evidence does not support assigning Moreau confidently to a named movement, school, documented series, or narrowly defined group of subjects. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name through sculpture and decorative-art auction listings. Those listings require careful object-level review because broad artist-name matching is not the same as authenticated authorship. Signatures, inscriptions, casting or edition information, provenance, materials, dimensions, and condition should therefore be examined alongside securely attributed comparable works.

## Common works and media

The strongest identity evidence in the collected sources establishes sculpture as Moreau’s principal work type. Appraisily’s matched auction data also places records in the broad categories “Sculpture and mixed media” and “Decorative art and editions.” These are market-data classifications, not a complete scholarly catalogue of his oeuvre. Other broad categories appearing in name-matched data should not be treated as characteristic Moreau work without independent object-level evidence. For appraisal purposes, record the material, dimensions, subject, signature and inscriptions, casting or edition details, condition, restoration, provenance, and the precise wording of the attribution before selecting comparable lots.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s public artist page contains a substantial set of matched auction records for Auguste Moreau, but its displayed record totals use differing scopes. Market interpretation should therefore focus on comparable objects rather than a single aggregate count or median. Relevant comparisons should align medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration history, provenance, signature or inscription, edition information, and attribution confidence. Comparable sale dates and realized prices can provide useful context when reporting conventions are consistent. Public auction results remain a starting point: private sales, incomplete feeds, buyer-premium treatment, and later attribution changes may not be fully represented, and none of these records replaces direct inspection or authentication.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Name matching and broad category labels require attribution and condition review before appraisal conclusions are drawn.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2871324
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500358416
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/127145067319166630761/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/213583
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/moreau-auguste-18341917
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Moreau
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/auguste-moreau/