# Gaston Leroux artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/gaston-leroux/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:42:22.877Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1854-09-14
- Death date: 1942-05-25
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Sculpture, Medallic art

## Portrait

![Gaston Leroux](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Leroux-Veuvevot_G_-_Autoportrait.jpg)
Gaston Veuvevot-Leroux (1854-1942) · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leroux-Veuvevot_G_-_Autoportrait.jpg

## About Gaston Leroux

Gaston Leroux, more fully identified in authority records as Gaston Veuvenot Leroux, was a French sculptor and medallist born in 1854 and died in 1942. French-language biographical data gives the dates 14 September 1854 and 25 May 1942, while VIAF and Getty records connect variant forms of his name. The name variants matter because “Gaston Leroux” can be too broad for reliable entity matching; Veuvenot and Veunevot-Leroux are useful identifiers for catalog and auction research. The available sources characterize his practice through sculpture and medallic work, but they do not assign him to a documented movement or provide a museum-based account of his career. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter his name in records for sculptural objects, medals, and related catalog entries. Attribution should remain tied to the object and its documentation rather than to name similarity alone.

## Common works and media

Authority sources associate Gaston Veuvenot Leroux with sculpture and medallic art. Works encountered in auction or appraisal research may therefore be cataloged as sculptures, medals, medallions, or related sculptural objects. The collected sources do not document specific subjects, materials, editions, or named series, so those details should be established from the individual object and its catalog history.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected market evidence is limited to Appraisily’s artist-auction record signal and authority sources identifying Leroux as a sculptor and medallist. A useful appraisal should begin by confirming that the cataloged maker is Gaston Veuvenot Leroux rather than another person named Gaston Leroux, using the documented name variants and life dates. Sculpture and medallic work should be compared within their own object types, and any public sale comparison should retain its sale date, realized price, lot description, and degree of similarity. This source pack does not establish a price trend, rarity claim, edition history, or auction-house consensus, so it cannot support a price prediction. Object-level evidence is still required for a valuation conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3099175
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/42649561/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500056960
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Veuvenot_Leroux
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Veuvenot_Leroux
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/gaston-leroux/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leroux-Veuvevot_G_-_Autoportrait.jpg