# Henri Godet artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/henri-godet/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:19:16.891Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1863-03-05
- Death date: 1937-10-14
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Sculpture

## Portrait

![Henri Godet](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Henri_Godet_1904.jpg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Godet_1904.jpg

## About Henri Godet

Henri Godet (1863–1937) was a French sculptor. Authority records from VIAF, IdRef, and Wikidata consistently identify him by those life years and profession, providing a sound basis for distinguishing him from other people with the same surname. The collected French biography gives the fuller dates of 5 March 1863 and 14 October 1937 and places his birth in Paris and death in Vincennes, although these exact details have less institutional corroboration in the source pack than the year-level data. A public-domain 1904 photograph also documents Godet in his studio. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name in connection with sculpture and auction records assigned to this artist identity. The available sources do not establish a particular movement, enumerate materials, describe recurring subjects, or identify documented series. Those aspects should therefore be assessed from the individual object and its supporting records rather than inferred from the artist’s name alone.

## Common works and media

Public identity sources consistently classify Henri Godet as a sculptor, making sculpture the only well-supported common work type in this source pack. The collected material does not identify specific media, casting materials, editions, subjects, series, drawings, or other categories. Any such classification should be based on the individual object and its documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Henri Godet should begin by confirming that the attribution refers to the French sculptor who lived from 1863 to 1937. The collected evidence supports sculpture as the relevant work category, but it does not document particular materials, editions, foundries, subjects, signatures, or workshop practices. The Appraisily input associates 186 directory records with this artist, yet the collected page response supplied no readable lot-level details. This pack therefore cannot establish sale ranges, price trends, material premiums, or category-specific comparables. A valuation requires separately verified object evidence and genuinely comparable public sales attached to the same artist identity, not a generalized prediction based only on the name.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine structured identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Henri Godet, the current identity evidence is stronger than the collected lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20168236
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/313568835/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/181669234
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Godet
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/henri-godet/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Godet_1904.jpg