# Henri Toussaint artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:03:12.378Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1849-04-10
- Death date: 1911-09-25
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Engraving and printmaking, Illustration and poster design

## About Henri Toussaint

Charles Henri Toussaint (1849–1911), known as Henri Toussaint, was a French painter, engraver and illustrator. The collected biographical source places both his birth and death in Paris. Public authority links associate the artist with Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, the BnF and the British Museum, helping distinguish him from other people with similar names. The source pack does not establish a specific movement or school, so his work is best described through documented practices rather than a stylistic label. Collectors may encounter paintings, engraved or other printed works, illustration-related material and poster designs. Examples gathered with the source pack include a work titled John Paul Jones, a view titled Amiens, and a travel poster for Normandy, Brittany and Jersey. These examples indicate a range from historical portrait subjects and city views to commercial travel imagery, but they should not be treated as a complete catalogue of his output.

## Common works and media

Documented practices include painting, engraving and illustration, while one collected image record identifies a travel-advertising poster. Other image records are associated with works titled John Paul Jones and Amiens, indicating historical portrait imagery and city views among the surviving examples discoverable in public collections. These records support broad categories such as paintings, prints or engravings, illustrated material and posters, but the source pack does not establish how frequently each type appears, whether particular works were issued in editions, or whether any named body of work forms a recognized series.

## Market and appraisal context

Market interpretation should begin by separating paintings from engravings, illustrations and poster material, then comparing records within the same work type and subject category. The collected pack contains an Appraisily artist-record signal, but it does not expose individual auction-house descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance or edition details. It therefore cannot support a price trend, typical value range or claim of scarcity. For a specific object, attribution to the correct Henri Toussaint should be verified before market comparisons are selected, especially because the portrait search returned material connected with another person of a similar name. Any valuation should rely on documented, like-for-like public sales rather than the aggregate record count alone.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3132084
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Toussaint
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500047446
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/70559826/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90703592
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14964160m
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG48739
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/henri-toussaint/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Toussaint_-_John_Paul_Jones_-_B1970.3.714_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Toussaint_-_Amiens_-_B2005.19.19_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg