# Norbert Goeneutte artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1854-07-24
- Death date: 1894-10-09
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Late 19th-century French painting (active during the Impressionist era)
- Common media: Oil painting, Etching, Watercolor, Pastel, Printmaking / graphic arts

## About Norbert Goeneutte

Norbert Goeneutte (1854–1894) was a French painter, etcher, pastelist, watercolorist, and illustrator born in Paris. Active during the late nineteenth century, he worked across oil, watercolor, pastel, and printmaking, producing Parisian street scenes, landscapes, and literary illustrations. He is known in particular for illustrating Émile Zola's novel La Terre. Goeneutte's career unfolded amid the vibrant Paris art world of the 1870s and 1880s, and his subjects ranged from city boulevards to riverside views along the Oise. He died in Auvers-sur-Oise at the age of forty. His work is represented in museum collections including the Tate. With 185 images documented in the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, his output—though cut short—covers a breadth of media and subjects that continue to appear in the auction market.

## Common works and media

Goeneutte's known output includes oil paintings of Parisian street scenes and landscapes, etchings, watercolors, pastels, and book illustrations. Subjects frequently depict urban Paris life—such as the Boulevard de Clichy—as well as rural settings along the Oise River. Printmaking and graphic illustration, including his work for literary publications, form a meaningful part of his catalogued oeuvre.

## Market and appraisal context

Goeneutte's works appear at auction primarily as oil paintings, etchings, and works on paper. His relatively short career and the resulting limited oeuvre can mean fewer lots surface compared to longer-lived contemporaries. Collectors should weigh medium (oil paintings versus prints), subject matter, condition, and documented provenance. Works with firm attribution supported by RKD records or museum exhibition history are likely to carry stronger appraised values. Because no single catalogue raisonné was identified in available sources, specialist verification of attribution is advisable for significant works.

## Appraisily data basis

This Appraisily artist page combines identity research grounded in library authority records (Getty ULAN, VIAF, RKD, Library of Congress) and museum sources (Tate) with auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots from the Appraisily and Invaluable databases when those records are available.

## Sources

- RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/32351
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/norbert-goeneutte-1181
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/7508511/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500003234
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552667
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80037396
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Goeneutte