# Augustin-Amant-Constant-Fidèle Edouart artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Movements: 19th-century portraiture and silhouette art tradition
- Common media: cut-paper silhouettes (black paper profiles), drawing, painting, wax modelling

## About Augustin-Amant-Constant-Fidèle Edouart

Augustin-Amant-Constant-Fidèle Edouart (1789–1861), commonly known as Auguste Edouart, was a French-born silhouette artist renowned for his full-length cut-paper portraits. Active across France, England, Scotland, and the United States, Edouart became one of the most prolific silhouette cutters of the 19th century, producing thousands of profile likenesses during his career. Unlike many contemporaries who worked with bust-length profiles, Edouart favored full-figure compositions that included detailed baselines with furniture and interior elements, giving his silhouettes a distinctive narrative quality. He also worked as a painter, draughtsman, and wax modeller. His sitters ranged from ordinary citizens to prominent public figures on both sides of the Atlantic, and his surviving albums and loose silhouettes are now held in major museum and private collections.

## Common works and media

Collectors most frequently encounter Edouart's black cut-paper silhouette profiles mounted on white or cream card, often full-length with furniture or floor-line detail. Bust-length profiles also appear. Some works are inscribed with the sitter's name, date, or a sequential number. Less commonly, attributed drawings, paintings, and wax portraits by Edouart surface at auction. Group portraits and album pages containing multiple silhouettes are also known.

## Market and appraisal context

Edouart's silhouettes appear regularly at auction in the portrait miniature and works-on-paper categories. Value depends heavily on the identity of the sitter, the compositional complexity (full-length examples with baseline detail are characteristic), condition of the cut paper and its mount, and whether the work is inscribed or numbered by the artist. Because Edouart was exceptionally prolific, individual works are not inherently rare, so appraisal should weigh attribution certainty, sitter significance, and provenance over scarcity alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine structured artist identity research from library authority files and museum databases with comparable auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and lot descriptions when those records are available. For Edouart, identity data is grounded in the Getty ULAN, VIAF, RKD, and Wikidata authority entries.

## Sources

- RKD – Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/25496
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500119964
- VIAF (OCLC): https://viaf.org/viaf/6214363/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2870949
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Edouart
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79095173