# Clovis Edmond Masson artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/clovis-edmond-masson/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:41:56.952Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1838-03-07
- Death date: 1913-09-10
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Sculpture

## About Clovis Edmond Masson

Clovis-Edmond Masson (1838–1913) was a French sculptor born in Paris and later associated with Villevaudé, where he died. The collected authority record identifies him broadly as a French sculptor, while the available French-language biography describes him more specifically as a sculptor specializing in animals. That animalier designation is the clearest documented artistic context in the current source pack. No museum biography, catalogue raisonné, or artist-estate source was collected to establish a movement, training history, exhibition record, or named body of work. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Masson’s name in connection with animal sculpture and auction cataloguing rather than through an extensively documented institutional profile. Appraisily ties this identity record to stable public authority pages while treating unsupported details—particularly materials, casting history, and attribution of individual objects—as questions requiring stronger object-level evidence.

## Common works and media

Animal sculpture is the only work type directly supported by the collected sources. The pack does not identify particular materials or production formats, so it cannot confirm whether a submitted object is a bronze, plaster, marble, editioned cast, unique model, drawing, or another type. Medium, inscriptions, dimensions, date, and documented authorship should be checked against stronger object-level records before assigning a work to Masson.

## Market and appraisal context

The available source pack supports animal sculpture as the relevant auction category, but it does not establish which materials, foundries, editions, signature forms, dates, condition patterns, or provenance histories occur in Masson’s market. The input reports 249 associated records, yet the public Appraisily page was rate-limited during collection and no individual lot, sale date, realized price, or comparable result could be checked in this research pass. Accordingly, the pack supports identity matching but not a price conclusion. A responsible appraisal should compare the submitted object’s documented characteristics with verified public auction records that genuinely match the work; this profile should not be read as authentication or a forecast of value.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2979738
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis-Edmond_Masson
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/212825
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/clovis-edmond-masson/