# Hippolyte François Moreau artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/hippolyte-francois-moreau/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:17:18.068Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1832-04-01
- Death date: 1926-01-04
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Sculpture, Bronze sculpture, Marble sculpture, Sculpted busts

## About Hippolyte François Moreau

Hippolyte François Moreau (1832–1926) was a French sculptor born in Dijon and active across the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Public authority records identify him under several forms of his name, including Hippolyte Moreau and François-Moreau, Hippolyte; those variants matter when matching works and auction records. The available source pack documents figurative sculpture in bronze and marble, including a female bust and a marble group of children with floral garlands. These examples place the human figure, youthful subjects, and decorative natural motifs among the themes associated with his work, although the collected evidence does not support assigning him to a specific movement. Collectors encounter Moreau through decorative and fine-art sculpture offered under differing titles, materials, and name forms. Careful identity matching is therefore important, particularly because attribution wording and the distinction between an original work, a later cast, and an edition can affect how an object should be researched.

## Common works and media

Auction and collection contexts in the source pack center on sculpture. Documented examples include bronze figurative work, a marble group of two children with floral garlands, and a sculpted female bust. Objects may be encountered under abbreviated or variant forms of Moreau's name. Material, dimensions, inscriptions, casting or edition details, surface condition, restoration, provenance, and attribution wording should be recorded before selecting comparable sales.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's collected market page contains 148 matched records, including 88 priced records dated from 2004 through 2026. It reports an observed range of $80 to $22,860 and a median near $800, but these figures describe a mixed public-auction dataset rather than a prediction for any individual sculpture. Useful comparisons should align the medium, dimensions, subject, date, casting or edition information, signature, condition, restoration history, provenance, and attribution confidence. The reported price definition also matters because auction feeds may treat buyer's premiums and fees differently. Broad name variants and incomplete feeds can introduce mismatches, so an appraisal should examine the object and the closest documented lots instead of applying the overall median mechanically.

## 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 records are starting evidence and may omit private sales or later attribution changes.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3136094
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500358417
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/42147121651226391595/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/213650
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte_Moreau_(sculpteur)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/hippolyte-francois-moreau/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hippolyte_Moreau.Chant_de_l%27alouette.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hippolyte_Fran%C3%A7ois_Moreau_-_Bust_Femen%C3%AD_-_BMVB_-_179.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Deux-jeunes-enfants-avec-couronnes-et-guirlandes-hippolyte-moreau.JPG