# Olivier de Penne artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1831-01-11
- Death date: 1897-04-18
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Barbizon School
- Common media: Painting, Illustration and printed images

## Portrait

![Olivier de Penne](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/C_O_de_Penne_par_Nadar.jpg/1280px-C_O_de_Penne_par_Nadar.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C_O_de_Penne_par_Nadar.jpg

## About Olivier de Penne

Olivier de Penne, more fully identified in authority records as Charles Olivier de Penne, was a French painter and illustrator born in 1831 and active during the nineteenth century. He is associated with the Barbizon School, the circle known for close observation of rural life, landscape, and animals. Although he began with history painting, his documented reputation rests principally on hunting scenes and animated representations of animals. His work also circulated through illustration and printed imagery, extending his subjects beyond unique paintings. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on paintings, hunting compositions, animal studies, illustrations, or period printed images. Because catalogues and authority files use several forms of his name—including Charles-Olivier de Penne and Olivier de Penne—careful entity matching is important when comparing objects, bibliography, and auction records. His recurring sporting and animal imagery provides the clearest context for placing an attributed work within his documented practice.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter paintings of hunts, sporting activity, dogs, horses, livestock, and other animal subjects, as well as illustrations and printed images. Authority records also note an early involvement with history painting, but hunting and animated animal scenes are the artist's most clearly documented specialties.

## Market and appraisal context

Works associated with Olivier de Penne should be compared by medium, work type, subject, date, dimensions, condition, provenance, and the strength of attribution. Hunting scenes and animal subjects are especially relevant because authority records identify them as central to his documented output, while early history subjects require different comparisons. Paintings, illustrations, and printed images should not be treated as interchangeable market categories. Appraisal research should examine genuinely comparable public auction lots, including their sale dates and realized prices, whenever detailed records are available. The collected identity sources do not themselves provide enough lot-level evidence to support a price forecast or a claim about market direction.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/142599158
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2959931
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500024061
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/62540
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Olivier_de_Penne
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Olivier_de_Penne
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/olivier-de-penne/