# Gustave Fraipont artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:28:34.488Z
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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1849-05-09
- Death date: 1923-04-29
- Nationality: Belgian, French
- Common media: Painting, Illustration and works on paper, Posters and graphic design, Sculpture

## Portrait

![Gustave Fraipont](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Gustave_Fraipont_par_Nadar.jpg/1280px-Gustave_Fraipont_par_Nadar.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Fraipont_par_Nadar.jpg

## About Gustave Fraipont

Gustave Mathieu Joseph Fraipont (1849–1923) was a Belgian-born artist who became a naturalized French citizen and worked as a painter, illustrator, poster designer, and sculptor. Authority records consistently identify him as Gustave Fraipont and place his career across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Collectors may encounter his name across several kinds of material rather than within a single medium: paintings, illustrated works on paper, posters, and sculpture. This breadth reflects his documented professional roles and makes precise object classification important when matching a work to the artist. His public identity is represented in Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, IdRef, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the British Museum. The exact birth and death dates used here come from the collected French-language biographical record, while the years 1849–1923 are independently corroborated by multiple authority files. No movement or school is assigned because the collected institutional sources do not support one clearly.

## Common works and media

Fraipont's documented practices support four broad object groups: paintings, illustrations and other works on paper, posters or related graphic designs, and sculpture. The collected sources do not establish which group is most common, identify recurring subjects, or document named series, so individual objects should be classified from their own physical and catalogue evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The supplied Appraisily index associates 225 auction records with Fraipont, indicating that collectors may encounter repeated public-market references. This source pack does not include lot-level descriptions or major-auction-house catalogues, so it does not support a price range or trend. Appraisal comparisons should therefore be limited to records that match the documented work type—painting, illustration or another work on paper, poster design, or sculpture—and should use sale dates and realized prices only when the underlying records expose them. Medium classification and the relevance of genuinely comparable lots are the supported valuation considerations here. Provenance, condition, dimensions, edition status, subject, and attribution wording may matter in practice, but this pack provides no evidence for artist-specific conclusions about their effects.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity and market evidence are kept distinct when the collected sources do not support a stronger conclusion.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3121190
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500139570
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/41981/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/029503043
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12111721z
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG27718
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Fraipont
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Fraipont
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/gustave-fraipont/