# Jean Jules Bernard Salmson artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:43:36.680Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1823-07-18
- Death date: 1902-05-06
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Sculpture, Medallic art

## Portrait

![Jean Jules Bernard Salmson](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Salmson%2C_sculpteur_genevois_-_estampe_-_M._Desboutin_-_btv1b10524822s_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Salmson%2C_sculpteur_genevois_-_estampe_-_M._Desboutin_-_btv1b10524822s_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Jean Jules Bernard Salmson · see-source-page
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salmson,_sculpteur_genevois_-_estampe_-_M._Desboutin_-_btv1b10524822s_(cropped).jpg

## About Jean Jules Bernard Salmson

Jean Jules Bernard Salmson (1823–1902), also recorded as Jean-Jules or Jules Salmson, was a French sculptor. A corroborating biographical source additionally identifies him as a medalist, placing his documented practice within nineteenth-century French sculpture and medallic art. The available source pack does not establish an association with a particular artistic movement or school. Collectors may encounter his name attached to sculptural objects or medals, and careful identity matching matters because catalogues and authority records use several forms of his name. Wikidata and a network of Getty, VIAF, Library of Congress, BnF, ISNI, IdRef, RKD, and Art UK identifiers help connect records across collections and sale databases. The sources agree that Salmson was born in Paris in 1823 and died in 1902. They conflict, however, over whether his July birthday was the 18th or the 9th, so the exact birth date remains provisional.

## Common works and media

The collected evidence supports sculpture and medallic work as the principal categories associated with Salmson. It does not establish recurring subjects, particular materials, edition practices, foundries, or named series, so those details should be determined from signatures, inscriptions, dimensions, construction, and object-specific documentation rather than assumed from the artist name.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with object-level evidence rather than the artist name alone. For a work catalogued as Salmson, practical questions include whether it is sculpture or medallic work, whether the attribution is supported, and whether a public sale record is genuinely comparable in object type and date. Appraisily's directory input reports 248 records associated with this artist name, but the collected source pack includes no major-auction-house entries, object descriptions, condition reports, provenance, dimensions, materials, edition or casting information, or realized-price details. Those gaps prevent a defensible price trend or typical-value claim. Any valuation should therefore be tied to the specific object and checked against documented public lots, their sale dates, realized prices, and cataloguing context when those records are available.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3188904
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12731868b
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500325389
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/5056445/
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Salmson
- Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jules_Salmson
- Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%96%D1%8E%D0%BB%D1%8C
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jean-jules-bernard-salmson/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salmson,_sculpteur_genevois_-_estampe_-_M._Desboutin_-_btv1b10524822s_(cropped).jpg