# Nino Costa artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/nino-costa/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:48:09.100Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Nino Costa](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Frederic_Leighton%2C_portrait_of_Giovanni_Costa.jpg)
Frederic Leighton · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederic_Leighton,_portrait_of_Giovanni_Costa.jpg

## About Nino Costa

Nino Costa is the name commonly used for Giovanni Costa (1826–1903), an Italian painter identified by authority records and biographical sources as a landscape specialist. His identity is represented across Wikidata, IdRef, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and museum collection systems, helping distinguish him from similarly named artists. Costa's public profile places him within nineteenth-century Italian landscape painting, with a career that extended to the opening years of the twentieth century. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter his name in connection with painted landscapes, exhibition histories, museum catalogues, and auction records. The available source pack does not establish a single formal movement label strongly enough to present one as definitive. An exhibition record indexed by IdRef instead places scholarship on Costa within broader discussions involving Corot, the Macchiaioli, and Symbolism. Those associations provide historical context but should not be treated as a firm movement attribution without stronger scholarly evidence.

## Common works and media

The collected identity sources consistently describe Costa as a painter and, more specifically, as a landscape painter. Paintings with landscape subjects are therefore the clearest documented work type for auction and appraisal research. The source pack does not establish prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or editioned works as common categories, so those formats should not be attributed to his usual practice without object-specific evidence and stronger cataloguing sources.

## Market and appraisal context

Public Appraisily data indicates that works catalogued under Nino Costa appear in auction records, but the collected source pack does not provide lot-level realized prices or a dependable breakdown by medium. For appraisal, the first task is entity matching: confirm whether the attribution refers to Giovanni Costa, also known as Nino Costa, rather than another Costa. Comparisons should prioritize similarly attributed landscape paintings and be organized by sale date, work type, and auction-house description. Any conclusion should be tested against the specific object and complete lot documentation. The available evidence supports careful comparable selection, not a current market trend, price forecast, or generalized value range.

## 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. Identity matching does not by itself authenticate or value an individual work.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3107147
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/030969611
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Costa_(painter%2C_born_1826)
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Costa_(Maler)
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Costa
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/nino-costa/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500026276
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/23046329/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85344020