# Georges Meunier artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/georges-meunier/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:51:28.159Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Advertising posters, Lithography on paper

## Portrait

![Georges Meunier](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Meunier_Georges_Mariani_t_XI_1908_portrait.jpg/1280px-Meunier_Georges_Mariani_t_XI_1908_portrait.jpg)
Désiré Quesnel · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meunier_Georges_Mariani_t_XI_1908_portrait.jpg

## About Georges Meunier

Georges Meunier is represented in the collected public records by a group of French advertising images from the 1890s. The documented examples include a Bal Bullier poster dated 1894, an advertisement featuring performer Loïe Fuller at the Folies Bergère dated 1897, and a lithographic design for JOB cigarette papers. Together, these records place the name in the world of late-nineteenth-century commercial graphics, entertainment publicity, and works on paper. A 1908 engraved portrait after a photograph also provides a documented likeness associated with the name. Biographical identification nevertheless requires care: the available authority record supplies little descriptive information, while the collected Wikipedia result concerns a different Georges Meunier, a French cyclist. Collectors may therefore encounter the artist principally through credited posters and lithographs rather than through a well-developed online biography. Dates, signatures, printer information, and the exact advertised subject should be checked against the individual object.

## Common works and media

The collected examples are advertising posters and lithographic works on paper from the 1890s. Their subjects include Parisian entertainment venues, a theatrical performer, and commercial product promotion. These examples support looking for printed graphic works, but the present evidence is too limited to define the artist's complete body of work or to determine which formats are most frequently traded.

## Market and appraisal context

Georges Meunier material may appear in poster, print, advertising-art, or general works-on-paper categories. Appraisal should begin by confirming that the object relates to the poster artist rather than another person with the same name. The stated date, printing process, credited designer, advertised venue or product, and agreement with documented designs can help establish the correct context. The collected pack illustrates dated designs for Bal Bullier, the Folies Bergère and JOB cigarette papers, but it contains no usable major-auction-house results. It therefore cannot support a price forecast or a claim about market trends. Any valuation should rely on the specific object's physical and documentary evidence together with genuinely comparable public sales when available.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine cautious artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Georges Meunier, the current public identity evidence is limited and should be supplemented with object-specific and auction evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110083660
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meunier_Georges_Mariani_t_XI_1908_portrait.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georges_Meunier,_Le_Bal_Bullier,_1894.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Affiche_Folies_Berg%C3%A8re_Lo%C3%AFe_Fuller_(Georges_Meunier_1897).jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Papel_de_fumar_Job,_Georges_Meunier.jpg
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Meunier
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG38258
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/georges-meunier/