# Daniel Urrabieta y Vierge artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:30:20.097Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1851-03-05
- Death date: 1904-05-10
- Nationality: Spanish
- Common media: Illustration, Drawing, Watercolor, Painting

## Portrait

![Daniel Urrabieta y Vierge](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Daniel_Urrabieta_Vierge_-_selfportrait.jpg)
Daniel Vierge / Bernardo Rico · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daniel_Urrabieta_Vierge_-_selfportrait.jpg

## About Daniel Urrabieta y Vierge

Daniel Urrabieta y Vierge (1851–1904), widely known as Daniel Vierge, was a Spanish-born illustrator, painter, and watercolorist whose career was centered largely in France. Authority records connect his full name with the shorter professional form, while biographical sources describe work for illustrated periodicals including Le Monde Illustré. His practice joined drawing and watercolor with the requirements of reproduced illustration, the field for which he became especially recognized. Vierge supplied images for writing by Victor Hugo and for Spanish literary classics including Don Quixote and La vida del Buscón. Sources also record the signatures “Vierge” and “D. Vierge,” which can provide useful identity clues when examining attributed works. Collectors may encounter his name on drawings, watercolors, paintings, book illustrations, and printed periodical material. Because the available evidence is stronger for biography than for auction performance, individual objects should be classified carefully by medium, format, publication context, inscription, and attribution.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts may include original drawings and illustrations, watercolors, paintings, book illustrations, and printed periodical material. Documented subject contexts include works by Victor Hugo, Don Quixote, La vida del Buscón, and material prepared for Le Monde Illustré. Works may bear the signatures “Vierge” or “D. Vierge,” but signatures should be evaluated together with the medium and publication context.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by distinguishing drawings, watercolors, paintings, and reproduced illustrations, since the sources document each of these contexts but provide no comparable prices by type. Signatures reading “Vierge” or “D. Vierge” may assist identification, although a signature alone does not establish authorship. A documented relationship to Le Monde Illustré, Victor Hugo, Don Quixote, or La vida del Buscón may help place an object within Vierge's recorded activity. Publication and printing information should be verified from the object itself. Comparable public sales are most useful when they match the medium, format, literary or periodical context, and stated attribution level of the work being appraised.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Daniel Urrabieta y Vierge, the present identity evidence is more detailed than the collected lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q627132
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500016374
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11928265b
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Vierge
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Urrabieta_Vierge
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Vierge