# Louis Leloir artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/louis-leloir/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:32:31.000Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1843-03-15
- Death date: 1884-01-28
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Watercolor, Engraving, Illustration

## Portrait

![Louis Leloir](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/The_painter_and_illustrator_Alexandre-Louis_Leloir_%28c.1880%29%2C_by_Ferdinand_Mulnier.jpg)
Ferdinand Mulnier · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_painter_and_illustrator_Alexandre-Louis_Leloir_(c.1880),_by_Ferdinand_Mulnier.jpg

## About Louis Leloir

Louis Leloir is the commonly used name of Alexandre Louis Leloir, a French painter and illustrator who lived from 1843 to 1884. Library authority records also identify him as a watercolorist and engraver, while biographical summaries associate his painting with historical subjects and genre scenes. These overlapping roles are useful when identifying his work because objects may appear under several cataloguing descriptions rather than under painting alone. His name also varies between Alexandre-Louis Leloir, Louis Leloir, and Louis Le Loir in public authority files and collection records. Collectors may therefore encounter paintings, watercolors, engraved material, illustrations, or other works on paper attached to one of these name forms. The available source pack supports his identity and principal artistic activities more securely than it supports a specific movement or school, so classification should emphasize documented media and subjects instead of assigning an unsupported stylistic label.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Louis Leloir may be described as paintings, watercolors, engravings, illustrations, or other works on paper. Documented subject contexts include historical painting and genre scenes. Because authority records identify several artistic roles, cataloguing should distinguish an original painting or watercolor from an engraving, printed impression, or illustration and should record the exact signature, inscription, attribution wording, dimensions, support, and technique observed on the object.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Louis Leloir should begin by establishing the object type and the precise form of the attribution. Paintings, watercolors, engravings, and illustrations are not directly interchangeable for comparison, and historical subjects should be compared with appropriately similar works rather than with unrelated genre scenes. Name variants recorded by authority files can help locate relevant catalogues and sale entries, but matching a name does not by itself authenticate an object. Condition, dimensions, date, provenance, inscriptions, and the wording used by a cataloguer should be examined at the individual-object level. Public realized prices can provide context when comparable lots are available, but this source pack does not support a general price trend or prediction.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When records are available, appraisal research can consider sale dates, realized prices, attribution language, and comparable lots while keeping identity evidence separate from object-specific authentication and valuation.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2833377
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500004820
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/69201022/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/167271253
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Louis_Leloir
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Louis_Leloir
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/louis-leloir/