# Maurice Leloir artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:20:08.018Z
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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1853-11-01
- Death date: 1940-10-07
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Watercolor, Drawing, Engraving and printmaking, Illustration

## Portrait

![Maurice Leloir](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Maurice_Leloir_1920.jpg/1280px-Maurice_Leloir_1920.jpg)
Agence de presse Meurisse · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maurice_Leloir_1920.jpg

## About Maurice Leloir

Maurice Leloir (1853–1940) was a French painter, watercolorist, illustrator, draftsman, printmaker, writer, and collector whose career joined image-making with the study of dress. French authority records identify him as a specialist in costume history and as the founding president of the Société de l'histoire du costume from 1906 until 1940. His collections also helped form the basis of a municipal costume museum. This combination of artistic practice, historical research, and collecting explains why his name appears across works on paper, printed images, paintings, and costume-related material. Collectors may encounter Leloir through watercolors, drawings, engravings, illustrations, or paintings rather than through a single signature medium. His public identity is documented across French and international authority systems, including IdRef, VIAF, Getty ULAN, Wikidata, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. No specific artistic movement is assigned here because the collected institutional evidence does not establish one.

## Common works and media

Leloir's documented practice spans paintings, watercolors, drawings, illustrations, engravings, and other printed work. Costume and dress history are especially relevant subjects because they were also areas of his research, collecting, and institutional activity. Individual objects should be classified by their actual medium rather than grouped together solely under his name.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by identifying whether a Maurice Leloir object is a painting, watercolor, drawing, illustration, or print. Costume-historical subject matter may be particularly relevant because French authority records describe him as a specialist in the history of dress. When suitable auction records are available, comparisons should be matched as closely as possible by work type, subject, sale date, and the information supplied in the individual catalogue entry. The present source pack establishes Leloir's identity and documented fields of practice but does not provide lot-level major-auction-house evidence. It therefore cannot support predictions about price direction, scarcity, or a typical value range.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/030081017
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3301038
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/46799449/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500025650
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Leloir
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Leloir
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/maurice-leloir/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maurice_Leloir_1920.jpg