# Louis Tauzin artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/louis-tauzin/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:16:44.690Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1842-07-21
- Death date: 1915-08-30
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Lithography, Chromolithography, Poster design

## Portrait

![Louis Tauzin](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Louis_Tauzin.png/1280px-Louis_Tauzin.png)
Braun, Clément & Cie · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_Tauzin.png

## About Louis Tauzin

Louis Tauzin (1842–1915) was a French painter, lithographer, poster artist, and chromolithographer. Public authority data identifies him as a French painter and lithographer, while French and English biographical summaries further describe landscape painting and poster or chromolithographic work. Born in Barsac and deceased in Royan, Tauzin is documented across both painting and graphic production. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on materially different objects: painted landscapes, lithographic sheets, posters, and other chromolithographic designs. That range makes identification of technique and object type especially important. The source pack establishes his basic identity and professional roles through Wikidata and linked authority records, but it provides limited institutional biography and no successfully retrieved museum or major auction-house essay. Accordingly, this page treats broad stylistic labels cautiously and does not assign Tauzin to a specific movement without stronger evidence.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Tauzin's name may include painted landscapes, lithographic sheets, posters, and chromolithographic designs. The source pack supports these broad work types but does not establish particular series, editions, recurring titles, or a complete catalogue of subjects.

## Market and appraisal context

The available sources associate Tauzin with several materially different categories, including landscape paintings, lithographs, chromolithographs, and posters. An appraisal should first identify which category and technique apply, then compare the object only with genuinely similar works. A painted landscape and a printed poster should not be treated as interchangeable comparables. The collected source pack does not provide accessible record-level auction descriptions or realized prices, so it cannot support a price trend or typical-value claim. Market conclusions should remain tied to verifiable auction-house cataloguing, sale dates, realized results, and closely matched public lots when those records become available.

## 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 this profile, the collected public sources support identity and broad work types, while record-level sale evidence was not successfully retrieved.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919328
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500095178
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb149593171
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/76591
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Tauzin
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Tauzin
- Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Tauzin
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_Tauzin.png