# Louis-Albert Carvin artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/louis-albert-carvin/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:14:40.483Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1875-08-07
- Death date: 1951-01-06
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Sculpture

## Portrait

![Louis-Albert Carvin](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Louis-Albert_Carvin_%281875-1951%29.jpg)
Bhikkhu · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis-Albert_Carvin_(1875-1951).jpg

## About Louis-Albert Carvin

Louis-Albert Carvin (1875–1951) was a French sculptor associated especially with animal subjects. The available identity records place his life and work in France, while the French biography gives Paris as both his birthplace and place of death. Carvin is described as an animalier, and another biographical record notes that he modeled both human and animal figures. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter his name in connection with figurative sculpture, particularly representations of animals, rather than paintings or works on paper. Appraisily’s artist input associates his name with 187 auction records, indicating recurring auction cataloguing under this identity. However, the collected excerpts do not disclose individual objects’ materials, dimensions, dates, casting details, or sale results. Attribution and object-level cataloguing should remain separate from this basic identity profile. His precise birth and death dates currently rely on the French biography and would benefit from confirmation through a fully accessible institutional authority record.

## Common works and media

The supported work profile centers on sculpture depicting animals and, more broadly, human or animal figures. The source pack does not establish particular materials, foundries, casting techniques, edition sizes, named series, or recurring individual compositions, so those characteristics should be recorded from the object and verified through relevant catalogues and comparable lots.

## Market and appraisal context

The source pack supports a sculpture-focused market context, especially animal and figurative subjects, but it does not expose lot-level auction evidence. No collected excerpt establishes materials, foundry or casting information, edition status, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, execution dates, sale dates, realized prices, or comparable-lot ranges. Those details should be verified on the specific object and against documented public auction records before an appraisal conclusion is drawn. Appraisily’s input count shows recurring records under Carvin’s name, but that count alone cannot establish authenticity, scarcity, price direction, or a value range.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Carvin, the present identity basis is adequate, but detailed market evidence was not available in the collected excerpts.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1155731
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Albert_Carvin
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Albert_Carvin
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Albert_Carvin
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/316387989/
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000449954606
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/210255
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb148804047
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/louis-albert-carvin/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis-Albert_Carvin_(1875-1951).jpg