# Luis Jimenez artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/luis-jimenez/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:58:33.643Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1845-06-21
- Nationality: Spanish
- Movements: Costumbrismo
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Luis Jimenez](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Luis_Jim%C3%A9nez_Aranda2.jpg)
Joaquín Diéguez · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luis_Jim%C3%A9nez_Aranda2.jpg

## About Luis Jimenez

The public source pack most strongly resolves the unaccented name Luis Jimenez to Luis Jiménez Aranda (1845–1928), a Spanish painter whose career was centered largely in France. Wikidata and VIAF align on his preferred name, occupation, nationality, and life years. He is associated with genre painting, including costumbrista scenes focused on everyday people, customs, and social settings rather than a single documented series. Collectors may encounter his name in accented and inverted authority forms, including “Jiménez Aranda, Luis,” an important distinction because the shorter listing “Luis Jimenez” is not uniquely identifying. The available evidence is stronger on identity than on a detailed career chronology or institutional exhibition history. This page should therefore treat Luis Jiménez Aranda as the leading entity match while keeping the assignment provisional until the underlying auction records are reconciled with their stated artist names, life dates, subjects, and catalogue descriptions.

## Common works and media

Available sources characterize Luis Jiménez Aranda as a painter of genre scenes, often discussed in relation to costumbrista subject matter. Paintings depicting everyday life, customs, and social settings are therefore the best-supported work type for this identity. The source pack does not establish a recurring print edition, sculpture practice, ceramic output, poster corpus, or named series, so those categories should not be assigned to this artist without lot-level verification.

## Market and appraisal context

Market interpretation should begin with entity resolution. Appraisily has auction records under Luis Jimenez, while authority files prefer Luis Jiménez Aranda and associate that name with 1845–1928. A comparable is relevant only when its cataloguing refers to this Spanish genre painter; a shared unaccented name is not sufficient. The collected pack provides no auction-house essays, lot-level medium breakdown, provenance histories, condition reports, or verified price examples, so it cannot support a price trend or forecast. For appraisal work, candidate records should be reconciled by stated artist, life dates, medium, subject, sale date, and realized price before results are grouped. Any value conclusion should rely on genuinely comparable public sales rather than the directory label alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Here, identity evidence is adequate, but the auction data still requires namesake reconciliation.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3013984
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/37821267/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500031366
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Jim%C3%A9nez_Aranda
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Jim%C3%A9nez_Aranda
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Jim%C3%A9nez_y_Aranda
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/luis-jimenez/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luis_Jim%C3%A9nez_Aranda2.jpg