# Charles Landelle artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1821-06-02
- Death date: 1908-10-13
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Orientalism, Academic art
- Common media: oil painting, drawing

## About Charles Landelle

Charles Zacharie Landelle (1821–1908) was a French painter and draftsman born in Laval, Pays de la Loire, who became one of the most recognized academic artists of mid-nineteenth-century France. Trained in the French academic tradition, Landelle built his early reputation on portraiture before turning to the Orientalist subjects that would define his public identity. His depictions of North African and Middle Eastern figures—especially young women in elaborate costume—earned him regular exhibition at the Paris Salon and official patronage under the Second Empire. Landelle's career bridged the worlds of state-commissioned art and the growing private market for exotic imagery. He died in Chennevières-sur-Marne and is buried at the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris. With over two hundred documented auction appearances, his work continues to surface regularly in the European painting market.

## Common works and media

Landelle is most frequently encountered at auction as an oil on canvas painter. His common subjects include Orientalist female figures in North African or Middle Eastern dress, formal portrait commissions, religious and allegorical scenes, and idealized genre compositions. Works on paper, including preparatory drawings, appear less often but are documented in RKD records. Print reproductions after his popular Salon paintings also circulate in the market.

## Market and appraisal context

Landelle's auction presence is anchored in 19th-century European painting sales, where his Orientalist canvases attract the most consistent collector interest. Portraits and religious compositions by the artist also appear, typically at lower estimates. Factors affecting appraisal include whether a work is an autograph painting versus a studio version, the strength of provenance (Salon exhibition records and museum history add measurable weight), condition, and subject category—Orientalist subjects generally outperform conventional portraits at auction. Collectors should verify attribution carefully, as Landelle's popularity during his lifetime led to widespread reproduction of his compositions.

## Appraisily data basis

This artist page is built from authority-file identity data (Getty ULAN, VIAF, Library of Congress, RKD), biographical research sources, and 208 documented auction lot records in the Appraisily database. Appraisily artist pages combine structured entity research with comparable sale records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and lot-level details when those records are available.

## Sources

- RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/47783
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1065263
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/40177983/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500029254
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Landelle
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91080040