# Gustave Jean Jacquet artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:17:20.965Z
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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1846-05-25
- Death date: 1909-07-11
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Academic art
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Gustave Jean Jacquet](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/GJ_Jacquet.jpg)
Nadar · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GJ_Jacquet.jpg

## About Gustave Jean Jacquet

Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846–1909) was a French painter associated with academic art and known particularly for portraits of women. Public identity sources also classify him as a painter of genre and historical subjects, placing his work within the polished figurative tradition encountered in late nineteenth-century French art. Jacquet was born and died in Paris, although the exact dates in this profile presently depend on corroborated authority and encyclopedia-style records rather than a fully retrieved museum biography. Collectors may encounter his name on formal portraits, idealized female figures, genre compositions, and historically themed paintings. These categories matter for entity matching because works attributed to Jacquet can vary considerably in format and subject. His identity is represented across Wikidata and established authority systems including Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, RKD, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, helping distinguish him from artists with similar surnames.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Jacquet’s name are principally paintings. The collected sources point to female portraits as a characteristic category, alongside other portraiture, genre subjects, and historical scenes. The available evidence does not justify adding prints, sculpture, ceramics, or editioned works as established categories.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work associated with Jacquet should begin by confirming the artist identity and determining whether the object is a portrait, genre scene, or historical composition. Female portraits are especially relevant because they are repeatedly identified with his practice in the collected sources. Useful comparisons should involve genuinely similar works and should consider the auction house, sale date, realized price, subject, and object type. Appraisily currently associates the artist page with 264 auction records, but the supplied research pack does not expose their individual descriptions, condition statements, provenance, dimensions, or attribution qualifications. Those records therefore provide a comparison pool rather than an automatic valuation, and each candidate comparable requires object-level review.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1556716
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/41494
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500012049
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG32796
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/jacquet-gustave-jean-18461909
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Jacquet
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Jean_Jacquet
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Jacquet
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/gustave-jean-jacquet/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GJ_Jacquet.jpg