# Jean Isy de Botton artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:21:41.298Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1898-06-20
- Death date: 1978-06-13
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture, Engraving and printmaking

## About Jean Isy de Botton

Jean Isy de Botton (20 June 1898–13 June 1978) was a French artist born in Salonica who died in New York. Authority records identify him both as Jean Isy de Botton and Jean de Botton, with surname-first forms also appearing in library catalogs. These variants matter when matching collection entries and auction records. The collected biographical sources describe a practice spanning painting, sculpture, and engraving or printmaking. An English-language biography additionally records work as a ballet librettist and designer, as well as activity as a lecturer and teacher. No museum-grade source in this pack assigns de Botton to a specific movement, and the available material does not establish recurring subjects or named series. Collectors may therefore encounter his name across several object types and cataloging conventions. Matching the 1898–1978 life dates and stable authority identifiers is more reliable than inferring identity from style or surname alone.

## Common works and media

The available authority and biographical records support paintings, sculpture, and engraved or printed works by Jean Isy de Botton. They do not identify dominant subjects, named series, poster production, ceramics, or edition practices, so those categories should not be attributed to the artist without object-specific or catalog evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by resolving the artist’s identity across the names Jean Isy de Botton, Jean de Botton, and surname-first authority forms. The source pack supports painting, sculpture, and engraving or printmaking as relevant work types, so public auction comparisons should be made within the appropriate medium rather than across every record bearing the name. Appraisily can assess available records using sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lot context. This research pack, however, contains no accessible major-auction-house lot descriptions, condition reports, provenance histories, edition details, or price series. It therefore supports an identity-led appraisal framework, not a price forecast or a claim that one category is more valuable or common than another.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile has stronger identity evidence than collected lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21598784
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/39649930/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500011416
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Botton
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Botton
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jean-isy-de-botton/