# Jules Moigniez artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T11:40:59.718Z
Quality: medium confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1835-05-28
- Death date: 1894-05-29
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Animalier sculpture
- Common media: Bronze, Sculpture

## About Jules Moigniez

Jules Moigniez (1835–1894) was a French sculptor associated with the 19th-century animalier tradition. He is best known for bronze animal subjects, particularly birds, while documented works also include dogs, horses, and hunting-related scenes. Collections represented through Art UK show the range of his subject matter, from hawks and water rails to pheasants, partridges, and canine figures. His work appears in both museum and auction contexts, where collectors may encounter cast-bronze sculptures identified with his name. Because similar animalier bronzes can vary in scale, finish, casting history, and attribution, identifying the specific object is important. Appraisily pages place Moigniez's artistic identity alongside matched auction records so that a work can be compared with relevant examples rather than judged from the artist name alone.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal records for Jules Moigniez may include cast-bronze animal sculptures, especially birds, dogs, and horses, as well as hunting scenes and related decorative sculpture. Documented collection examples include hawks, water rails, seabirds, pheasants, partridges, and canine figures. A useful description should record the subject, dimensions, medium, signature or inscription, base, casting or edition details, condition, and provenance. These details help distinguish an original attributed work, a later cast, and an incorrectly identified object.

## Market and appraisal context

Collectors assessing a Jules Moigniez work should begin with the object itself: medium, dimensions, subject, date or period, condition, restoration, signature, and attribution. For bronze sculpture, casting details, surface quality, edition or foundry information, and provenance may materially affect comparability. Exhibition history and catalogue references can provide additional context when available. Appraisily's public market index includes matched auction records, but those records should be treated as reference points rather than a guaranteed valuation. Private transactions, incomplete reporting, buyer premiums, attribution revisions, and differences between related animal subjects can make apparently similar results non-equivalent.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3188795
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96568114/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500120148
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/moigniez-jules-18351894
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Moigniez
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Moigniez
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/213571
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jules-moigniez/