# Corneille artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/corneille/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T09:39:10.365Z
Quality: low confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Death date: 1575-11-08
- Nationality: Netherlandish, French
- Movements: Renaissance
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Corneille](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Corneille_de_Lyon_-_Self-portrait_%28copy_attributed_to_Claude_Mellan%2C_Albertina_inv_no_32802%29.jpg)
Attributed to Claude Mellan / After Corneille de Lyon · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corneille_de_Lyon_-_Self-portrait_(copy_attributed_to_Claude_Mellan,_Albertina_inv_no_32802).jpg

## About Corneille

This profile provisionally identifies Corneille as Corneille de Lyon, the Netherlandish-born portrait painter also recorded as Corneille de La Haye and Claude Corneille. Born around 1500-1510, he is documented in Lyon from 1533 and later became a French subject. His career developed within the sixteenth-century French court, where he served as a painter associated with Henry II. Collectors encounter his name chiefly in connection with compact, naturalistic portraits whose sitters are often placed against simple green or blue fields. That restrained format became a recognizable feature of work associated with him. Attribution remains unusually consequential: Getty records the portrait of Pierre Aymeric as the only surviving painting considered unquestionably his. Works cataloged under Corneille de Lyon therefore require careful attention to authorship language, historical documentation, date, and stylistic correspondence. The short name Corneille can also identify other artists, so the identity attached to any auction record should be confirmed before comparison.

## Common works and media

Corneille de Lyon is principally associated with painted portraits, especially small-format likenesses with a sitter presented against an unembellished green or blue background. Auction and appraisal research may encounter works under several names, including Corneille de La Haye and Claude Corneille. Given the limited securely documented oeuvre, descriptions such as attributed to, workshop of, circle of, or later copy should not be treated as equivalent to an autograph work without supporting specialist evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraising a work attributed to Corneille de Lyon begins with identity and attribution rather than a generalized price trend. Relevant considerations include the exact cataloging language, the object's date, its relationship to the artist's documented Lyon career, and whether its format and visual treatment correspond to the small naturalistic portraits described by Getty. Records under alternate names such as Corneille de La Haye or Claude Corneille may also need reconciliation. Because the collected source pack contains no major-auction-house catalog entries, condition reports, or realized-price evidence, it cannot support a current price estimate. Comparable sales should be selected only after confirming that they concern this historical portrait painter rather than another artist known as Corneille.

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## Sources

- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115387
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/034996788
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/64122715/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q720941
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneille_de_Lyon
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneille_de_Lyon
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corneille_de_Lyon_-_Self-portrait_(copy_attributed_to_Claude_Mellan,_Albertina_inv_no_32802).jpg