# Henri Dasson artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/henri-dasson/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:56:31.568Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Common media: Gilt-bronze-mounted furniture, Cabinetmaking, Bronze work and chiselling

## Portrait

![Henri Dasson](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Henry_Dasson.jpg)
Inc. Panthéon de l'Industrie · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Dasson.jpg

## About Henri Dasson

Henri Dasson (1825–1896), also recorded as Henry Dasson, was a French nineteenth-century cabinetmaker and bronze worker active in Paris. Authority records identify him as a maker of furniture decorated with gilt-bronze mounts, while biographical summaries connect his furniture practice with earlier experience in bronze sculpture. This background helps explain why descriptions of his work frequently emphasize the execution and chiselling of its metal decoration. Collectors are most likely to encounter Dasson through furniture and related decorative-arts objects rather than through a documented series of autonomous artworks. Because both Henri and Henry appear in public authority records, reliable entity matching should account for both name forms. An appraisal should begin with the individual object's materials, construction, mounts, marks, date, condition, restoration history, and attribution, then compare those characteristics with documented public auction results for materially similar works.

## Common works and media

Public identity sources consistently associate Dasson with cabinetmaking, bronze work, and furniture enriched with gilt-bronze decoration. In auction and appraisal contexts, likely matches should therefore be assessed as furniture or decorative art, with close attention to the primary materials, bronze mounts, chiselling, construction, marks, restoration, and date. The collected sources do not establish a dependable list of recurring furniture forms, named series, or editions, so those details should be determined from object-level evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched public auction data contains results associated with both Henri Dasson and Henry Dasson, but an aggregate result is not a valuation for an individual object. Useful comparisons should involve furniture or decorative art of similar medium, size, date, construction, condition, restoration history, surface quality, signature or inscription status, provenance, catalogue support, and attribution confidence. Auction totals may differ in whether buyer premiums or other fees are included, while private sales and incomplete feeds may be absent. The strongest appraisal evidence therefore comes from recent public sales of genuinely comparable objects, with differences in materials, quality, condition, and attribution clearly identified rather than averaged away.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public results are evidence for comparison, not a substitute for inspecting attribution, condition, provenance, and the individual object.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96333533/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3132718
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500089633
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dasson
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dasson
- Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dasson
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/henri-dasson/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Dasson.jpg