# Edouard Vallet artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-05-23T02:05:08.180Z
Quality: high confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1876-01-12
- Death date: 1929-05-01
- Nationality: Swiss
- Common media: painting, printmaking (engraving), drawing

## About Edouard Vallet

Édouard Eugène François Vallet (1876–1929) was a Swiss painter, printmaker, and draftsman active from the late 1890s until his death in 1929. Documented in the RKD (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie), Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress authority files, Vallet is recognized across major international art-historical databases as a Swiss engraver and painter. His working period spans roughly 1896 to 1929, placing his career in the transition between late nineteenth-century academic traditions and early twentieth-century modernism. Over 300 of his works have appeared at auction, making his name familiar to collectors of Swiss and European art. His practice encompassed oil painting, engraving, and drawing, and his works are catalogued in standard reference sources including Thieme/Becker, Bénézit, and the Swiss Künstler-Lexikon.

## Common works and media

Vallet worked across painting, printmaking (engraving), and drawing. Oil paintings on canvas or panel, intaglio prints and etchings, and works on paper in graphite or ink represent the most common media collectors will encounter. Specific subjects and series are not well documented in the available authority sources, so collectors should rely on individual lot descriptions and RKD image records for subject identification.

## Market and appraisal context

Works by Édouard Vallet appear with some regularity in the auction market, with over 300 documented lots. Collectors are most likely to encounter his oil paintings, engravings, and drawings. As with many early twentieth-century Swiss artists, value depends on medium, dimensions, subject, date, condition, and whether the work can be firmly attributed. RKD holds 55 documented image records that can support attribution research. Comparable auction results from Swiss and European houses provide the most reliable price context for individual works.

## Appraisily data basis

This artist page combines identity data from RKD, Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, and the Library of Congress authority files with Appraisily's auction-record database of over 300 lots. Appraisily artist pages integrate artist biography, authority-file identifiers, comparable public auction results, sale dates, and realized prices when those records are available.

## Sources

- RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/79094
- VIAF (OCLC): https://viaf.org/viaf/59266880/
- Getty Research Institute: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500019346
- Wikimedia Foundation: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3580056
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edouard_Vallet
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97101406