# Léon Richet artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/leon-richet/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:03:06Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Movements: Barbizon School
- Common media: Painting

## About Léon Richet

Léon Richet (1843–1907) was a French painter known primarily for landscape subjects and associated in the available references with the Barbizon School. Born in Solesmes in northern France, he studied art in Valenciennes and later taught there. The collected biography also records his participation in exhibitions of the Société des Artistes Français from 1880 through 1906 and an artistic connection with Narcisse Virgilio Díaz. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Richet through nineteenth-century French landscape painting and works catalogued in the orbit of Barbizon naturalism. Authority records across Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, GND, ISNI, RKD, and Art UK help distinguish him from similarly named people. One identity issue remains unresolved in the collected evidence: Wikidata gives 1843 as his birth year, while the Art UK record identifies him as 1847–1907. That uncertainty should be retained until stronger biographical documentation resolves it.

## Common works and media

Public sources characterize Richet as a landscape painter associated with the Barbizon School. Paintings depicting landscapes are therefore the best-supported type of work likely to appear in auction and appraisal contexts. The collected evidence does not establish a reliable catalogue of specific media, recurring named series, print editions, drawings, sculptures, or other object categories, so those classifications should be confirmed from the individual work and its documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by confirming that the work is consistently attributed to Léon Richet and that its subject and handling fit his documented identity as a French landscape painter. Useful comparisons should match the object as closely as possible by work type, subject, approximate date, dimensions, condition, provenance, and quality of attribution. Public sale dates and realized prices can provide context when genuinely comparable records are available, but they should not be treated as automatic predictions for another object. The collected source pack does not include accessible major-auction-house lot descriptions, so conclusions about relative demand, scarcity, or price direction would be premature.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18600491
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500012522
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/richet-leon-18471907
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Richet
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Richet
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Richet
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/leon-richet/
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/84150708/
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1051005663
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000067092684