# Louis Aimé Japy artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/louis-aime-japy/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:03:43.503Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1839-10-19
- Death date: 1916-01-08
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Barbizon School
- Common media: Painting

## About Louis Aimé Japy

Louis Aimé Japy (1839–1916) was a French painter associated in French and Swedish reference records with the Barbizon School. The collected sources place his birth on 19 October 1839 in the commune of Seloncourt in the Doubs and his death on 8 January 1916 in Paris. Some English-language and institutional listings instead use 1840 as his birth year, so cataloguers should retain awareness of that discrepancy when matching records. Japy is encountered by collectors principally as a painter, while a Wikimedia museum-object image documents at least one landscape. Appraisily's collected input links 237 auction records to his public artist page, indicating a recurring secondary-market presence, although the supplied pack does not expose enough lot-level detail to define a complete catalogue of subjects, formats, or periods. His identity is reinforced by Wikidata and stable authority links including Getty ULAN, VIAF, BnF, RKD, GND, ISNI, and IdRef.

## Common works and media

The available evidence identifies Japy securely as a painter and documents at least one landscape associated with his name. Landscape paintings are therefore a supported appraisal context, but the pack does not establish a broader range of subjects or confirm prints, editions, sculptures, ceramics, or other media. Each object should be classified from its own physical and documentary evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraising a work associated with Louis Aimé Japy begins with confirming the attribution and distinguishing firm authorship from qualified descriptions such as circle, manner of, or attributed to. The source pack securely supports painting as his medium and documents landscape as at least one subject. Appraisily also links numerous auction records to his identity, which may provide useful comparable sales after individual lots are reviewed. The collected pack does not contain the underlying lot descriptions or results, however, so it cannot support a price trend or forecast by itself. Birth-year variation across reference records also makes careful entity matching important when consulting catalogues and auction archives. Any realized price should be interpreted in its original sale context before being applied to another object.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3260986
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500041452
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95949992/
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb17015553h
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/41982
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/japy-louis-aime-18401916
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Aim%C3%A9_Japy
- Wikipedia: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Aim%C3%A9_Japy
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Aim%C3%A9_Japy
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis-Aim%C3%A9_Japy-Paysage-Mus%C3%A9e_barrois.jpg