# Henri Louis LeVasseur artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/henri-louis-levasseur/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:17:15.356Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Common media: Sculpture, Mixed media

## About Henri Louis LeVasseur

Henri Louis LeVasseur (1853–1934) was a French sculptor whose identity is documented across Wikidata, VIAF, RKD, and Art UK. Authority records consistently distinguish him by occupation and life dates, which is important because shortened forms of his name can be confused with other makers or artists. Collectors most often encounter his name in sculpture-related auction listings, while Appraisily's matched records also place some entries within mixed-media, decorative-art, and edition groupings. The available public sources do not establish a specific movement, school, recurring subject, or named series, so those labels should not be inferred from the surname or from an individual lot alone. For identification, the most useful starting points are the full artist name, the 1853–1934 date range, French nationality, and sculptor occupation. Individual objects still require separate review of signature, medium, casting or edition details, provenance, condition, and the auction house's attribution language.

## Common works and media

The source pack securely supports sculpture as LeVasseur's principal artistic context. Appraisily's matched auction data also groups records under sculpture and mixed media, as well as decorative art and editions. The collected institutional sources do not identify a dependable list of materials, subjects, named series, or edition types. A work offered under his name should therefore be described from the object and its documentation rather than assigned a medium, subject, or period from artist-level assumptions.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin with genuinely comparable objects rather than a page-wide median or the highest recorded result. Relevant comparisons should account for medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, surface quality, signature or inscriptions, edition or casting information, provenance, exhibition and catalogue references, subject, and attribution confidence. Appraisily's public index contains matched auction records for LeVasseur, but its observed range is broad and may include incomplete feeds, private-sale gaps, differing fee conventions, or records whose attribution later changes. A qualified appraisal should therefore inspect the object directly, confirm the precise attribution language, and compare it with recent public sales of materially similar works before drawing a value conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public records are starting evidence, not authentication or a final appraisal.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/2857153653283855900003/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13632844
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/levasseur-henri-louis-18531934
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/212594
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/henri-louis-levasseur/