# Charles Laplante artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:45:03.448Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1837-09-14
- Death date: 1903-06-16
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Wood engraving, Book and periodical illustration

## About Charles Laplante

Charles Laplante (1837–1903) was a French wood engraver and illustrator working in nineteenth-century illustrated publishing. He is documented as an engraver of compositions by Gustave Doré and as a contributor to books issued by Hetzel and Hachette. Surviving examples in the source pack connect his name with François Guizot’s history of France, Édouard Chartron’s travel periodical Le Tour du monde, and Louis Figuier’s Vies des Savants Illustres. These records demonstrate the collaborative nature of his practice: Laplante often translated an image conceived by another artist into engraved form for publication. Collectors therefore encounter his name less often as the maker of a unique painting than in captions, signatures, and credits attached to engraved illustrations and printed volumes. His output belongs to the history of French book and periodical illustration, where responsibility for an image may be divided among designer, draughtsman, engraver, publisher, and printer.

## Common works and media

Documented work types include wood engravings and printed illustrations made for books and periodicals. Collected examples cover medieval history, travel and geography, and biographies of historical scientific figures. Works may carry multiple credits because Laplante engraved designs or source material supplied by other artists. For identification, record the complete caption, publication title, named designer or source artist, engraver credit, date, and publisher rather than relying on the image alone.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first establish whether Laplante is credited as engraver, original designer, or both. The source pack includes images connected with designs or source material by other artists, so a Laplante credit does not by itself identify the originator of the composition. Publication title, publisher, date, and placement within a documented book or periodical are important cataloguing facts. Subject and series context can also separate otherwise similar impressions. The supplied evidence does not expose individual auction results, edition statements, impression states, dimensions, paper, or condition reports and therefore cannot support price forecasts. Comparable public auction records should be reviewed only after the object's complete credit line and publication context have been established.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2959569
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Laplante
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/59353462/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr90008649
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000001186207
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/13423524X
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C._Laplante_1878.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Laplante_-_La_premi%C3%A8re_croisade_(illustration_pour_Fran%C3%A7ois_Guizot).png
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_%C3%A9tang_pr%C3%A8s_de_Pongola.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thales--Vies_des_savants_illustres_by_louis_Figuier_Louis.jpg