# Emile-André Boisseau artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:43:48.364Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1842-03-29
- Death date: 1923-11-17
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Sculpture

## Portrait

![Emile-André Boisseau](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Emile_Boisseau_photo.jpg)
Unknown photographer · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emile_Boisseau_photo.jpg

## About Emile-André Boisseau

Émile-André Boisseau (1842–1923) was a French sculptor born in Varzy, in the Nièvre department. Library and artist-authority records identify him under several forms, including Émile Boisseau and Emile-André Boisseau, so catalogues and sale records may be indexed under different spellings. The collected evidence securely establishes sculpture as his professional field, but it does not provide enough institution-grade detail to assign a named movement, identify recurring subjects, or describe a documented series. His lifespan crosses the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, although that chronology should not be treated as a movement attribution. For appraisal and entity matching, the most useful anchors are his full name, French nationality, 1842–1923 life dates, VIAF and Wikidata identifiers, and association with Varzy. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name in sculpture listings and broader decorative-art auction classifications, where authorship, material, dimensions, condition, and provenance require object-specific review.

## Common works and media

Authority sources identify Boisseau specifically as a sculptor. In auction and appraisal records, his name is therefore most credibly associated with sculpture, while some matched records may appear under broader labels such as mixed media, decorative art, editions, paintings, or works on paper. The collected institutional evidence does not securely document recurring materials, subjects, editions, or named series, so each object's medium, construction, signature, attribution, dimensions, and provenance should be established independently.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched public-auction data shows a limited priced sample, with observed results from about $300 to $4,000 and a median near $1,100. These figures describe the available record feed, not a prediction for another object. An appraisal should compare the same type of work and weigh medium, dimensions, date, condition and restoration, signatures or inscriptions, edition information where relevant, attribution confidence, provenance, exhibition or catalogue documentation, and recent comparable sales. The current category mix is broad, so classifications outside sculpture should be treated as market-record labels rather than proof that Boisseau routinely worked in every listed medium. Private sales, incomplete feeds, reporting conventions, and later attribution changes can leave the public record incomplete.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public results may not capture private sales, incomplete feeds, or later attribution changes.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18508757
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/44574340/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/163472629
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/boisseau-emile-andre-18421923
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Boisseau
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/emile-andre-boisseau/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emile_Boisseau_photo.jpg