# Michel Victor Acier artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:23:01.115Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1736-08-06
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Ceramics, Porcelain, Sculpture

## About Michel Victor Acier

Michel Victor Acier (1736–1799) was a French ceramist and sculptor associated with porcelain modeling in Saxony. Wikidata and VIAF consistently identify him as French and give the same life years, while German-language biographical material describes his work as that of a porcelain modeller. Public object photography collected through Wikimedia Commons documents modeled porcelain figure groups credited to Acier, including figures identified as Laurette, Annette and Lubin. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter his name in connection with sculptural porcelain figures and groups. The available authority records establish a distinct artist identity and connect several national-library identifiers, but this source pack does not provide a complete scholarly chronology, catalogue of models, or detailed account of his workshop practice. Attribution of an individual object should consequently remain tied to its physical characteristics, documentation, and the precise wording used in its catalogue record.

## Common works and media

Public identity records describe Acier as a ceramist, sculptor, and porcelain modeller. Object imagery in the collected source pack shows modeled porcelain figures arranged as small figurative groups, including subjects identified as Laurette, Annette and Lubin. The pack does not provide evidence for treating prints, paintings, posters, drawings, bronze editions, or other media as common categories for this artist.

## Market and appraisal context

The public Appraisily page associates 262 auction records with Michel Victor Acier. The collected research pack, however, contains no detailed major-auction-house biography, lot-level analysis, or comparable-sale table. It supports recognition of an auction-record footprint, but not a price trend, typical value, scarcity claim, or attribution conclusion. An appraisal should return to the underlying records, distinguish asking prices from realized prices, align sale dates, and compare genuinely similar objects. Conclusions about an individual piece should remain conditional on the evidence supplied for that object and the attribution wording used by the relevant auction house.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Source limitations and unresolved attribution questions are retained rather than replaced with unsupported conclusions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3856376
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500059554
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/122299574/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013044472
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel-Victor_Acier
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Victor_Acier
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michel-victor_acier_per_meissen,_laurette,_annette_e_lubin,_1738_ca._02.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michel-victor_acier_per_meissen,_laurette,_annette_e_lubin,_1738_ca._01.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/michel-victor-acier/