# Ippolito Caffi artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:46:36.547Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Ippolito Caffi](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/%28Venice%29_Ippolito_Caffi_-_Autoritratto_-_Pinacoteca_Querini_Stampalia.jpg/1280px-%28Venice%29_Ippolito_Caffi_-_Autoritratto_-_Pinacoteca_Querini_Stampalia.jpg)
Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(Venice)_Ippolito_Caffi_-_Autoritratto_-_Pinacoteca_Querini_Stampalia.jpg

## About Ippolito Caffi

Ippolito Caffi (1809–1866) was an Italian painter associated in the collected records with architectural subjects, seascapes, and urban vedute. Public authority files maintained by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and IdRef provide a stable identity framework for matching his name across collections and catalogues. The available work-title evidence is especially connected with Italian places: VIAF records include views of Rome, the Roman Campagna, Venice, Genoa, Naples, monuments, aqueducts, and public events. This combination of recognizable sites, expansive city views, maritime settings, and historically specific scenes helps explain why collectors may encounter Caffi through landscape, architectural-view, and nineteenth-century Italian painting categories. The collected material does not establish a single movement or school strongly enough to assign one here. It instead supports describing him through his period, medium, and recurring subject matter while leaving more detailed stylistic classification to fuller museum or scholarly sources.

## Common works and media

The collected sources most clearly support paintings depicting architectural subjects, urban vedute, seascapes, and Italian landscapes. Named records include Roman monuments and aqueducts, views across the Roman Campagna, Venetian settings, the Bay of Genoa, Naples, and scenes connected with public or historical events. When cataloguing a possible Caffi work, record the medium, support, dimensions, inscriptions, labels, depicted location, and any date or event clues. The present evidence does not establish prints, editions, drawings, or other formats as common auction categories, so those object types should be assessed individually rather than assumed.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Caffi should begin with the object itself: its medium and format, depicted place or event, apparent date, attribution wording, physical condition, and documented ownership history. The available authority records show that titles associated with him range from Roman monuments and Campagna landscapes to Venetian scenes, seascapes, and historically specific public events, making subject identification useful when selecting comparisons. Public auction results can provide additional context, but comparisons should match the work type and subject as closely as possible and should be reviewed by sale date and realized result. This source pack does not provide enough lot-level evidence to support a price prediction or market-trend claim.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When available, sale dates, realized prices, attribution language, and comparable lots are used to place an individual object in context; they do not replace object-specific examination or authentication.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1059376
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500031040
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/64852463/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/030352231
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ippolito_Caffi
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ippolito-caffi/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(Venice)_Ippolito_Caffi_-_Autoritratto_-_Pinacoteca_Querini_Stampalia.jpg