# Marcel Cosson artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/marcel-cosson/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:27:50.469Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting

## About Marcel Cosson

Marcel Cosson, identified in authority records by the fuller name Jean Louis Marcel Cosson, was a French painter who lived from 1878 to 1956. Wikidata and VIAF agree on his identity and occupation, while Getty ULAN, the Library of Congress, IdRef, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France provide stable authority references useful for distinguishing him from people with similar names. Collectors may encounter his name in painting catalogues and public auction records; Appraisily's collected input associates the artist with 499 such records. The available source pack does not, however, provide institution-grade support for a particular movement, school, recurring subject, or named series. Those classifications should therefore be assessed from the individual work and stronger catalogue evidence rather than assumed from the artist's name alone. This page uses the public slug Marcel Cosson while retaining his fuller authority-file identity for entity matching and attribution research.

## Common works and media

The authoritative sources in the collected pack identify Cosson as a painter, so paintings are the only work type that can be stated confidently here. Works may be catalogued under Marcel Cosson or the fuller name Jean Louis Marcel Cosson. The source pack does not reliably establish additional media, recurring subjects, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, named series, or a particular stylistic movement.

## Market and appraisal context

A Marcel Cosson appraisal should begin by confirming that the object is associated with the French painter Jean Louis Marcel Cosson, rather than another person with the same surname. Relevant public auction records can help frame the market when their medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, provenance, attribution language, sale date, and realized price are genuinely comparable. The collected material establishes an auction-record presence but does not support a price trend, a scarcity claim, or a prediction about future value. Signatures, labels, inscriptions, ownership history, and supporting documentation should be evaluated with the physical work; an artist-name match or database result alone is not authentication.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Authority records support identity matching; individual objects still require evidence-specific appraisal and attribution review.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52148465
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/56195474/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500008630
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/123493544
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14971957d
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95029582
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/marcel-cosson/