# Guillaume Delisle artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/guillaume-delisle/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:39:45.000Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1675-02-28
- Death date: 1726-01-26
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Cartographic maps

## Portrait

![Guillaume Delisle](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Guillaume_Deslile_AGE_1802.jpg)
Konrad Westermayr / Jean Henri Cless · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guillaume_Deslile_AGE_1802.jpg

## About Guillaume Delisle

Guillaume Delisle (1675–1726) was a French cartographer, geographer, and astronomer associated with the development of European mapmaking around the turn of the eighteenth century. Authority records also identify him under forms such as Guillaume de l’Isle, Guillaume de Lisle, and Del’Isle. IdRef describes him as geographer to the king of France and a member of the Académie des sciences from 1702, while Wikidata and VIAF consistently identify the same historical figure and life years. Delisle is chiefly encountered through maps: the available biographical source connects his work with Europe and the newly explored Americas and describes his cartography as popular and accurate. Collectors therefore meet his name primarily in historical cartography rather than painting or sculpture. Because later publications and variant imprints may preserve his name, a map credited to Delisle should be matched carefully to its title, publication date, publisher, and attribution before being described as a lifetime work.

## Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter maps associated with Delisle, particularly cartographic treatments of Europe and the Americas. Catalogues may credit Guillaume Delisle, Guillaume de l’Isle, Guillaume de Lisle, or another documented name variant. The source pack does not establish a dependable list of individual map titles, editions, engraving states, formats, or decorative features, so those details should be verified from the object and a specific catalogue record.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s public artist page indicates an auction-record footprint for Delisle, but the collected source pack does not include major-auction-house lot descriptions or realized-price evidence. Appraisal should therefore begin with identity and attribution: compare the credited name with authority-file variants, establish the map’s geographic subject, and determine its publication date and whether it is a lifetime or later issue. The IdRef record includes a 1772 bibliographic example under his name, illustrating why a date after his 1726 death requires publication-context review rather than automatic rejection. Edition or state, imprint, condition, margins, coloring, restoration, provenance, and comparable sales should be evaluated from the individual object and specific public records. The available evidence does not support a price prediction or market-trend claim.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Delisle, the present source pack provides strong identity evidence but limited lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/050706462
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1389662
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/19841342/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500405524
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Delisle
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Delisle
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/guillaume-delisle/