# Paul Adolphe Rajon artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1843-07-02
- Death date: 1888-06-07
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking and graphic works, Photography during his early career

## Portrait

![Paul Adolphe Rajon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Paul_Adolphe_Rajon%2C_by_Paul_Adolphe_Rajon.jpg)
Paul Adolphe Rajon · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Adolphe_Rajon,_by_Paul_Adolphe_Rajon.jpg

## About Paul Adolphe Rajon

Paul Adolphe Rajon (1843–1888) was a French painter and printmaker whose career also began in photography. Authority records identify him under both Paul Adolphe Rajon and Paul-Adolphe Rajon, with some catalogues giving his birth year as 1842 or 1843. The strongest collected evidence supports 1843, while the precise biographical account records his birth in Dijon on 2 July 1843 and his death at Auvers-sur-Oise on 7 June 1888. Rajon's practice spans painting and graphic art, so collectors may encounter his name on prints and other works on paper as well as paintings. His photographic beginnings add context to the breadth of his working life, but the present evidence does not establish a particular movement, school, recurring subject, or named series. For appraisal and entity matching, his hyphenated name form and authority identifiers are especially useful because catalogues differ on the birth year.

## Common works and media

The collected evidence supports paintings, prints and other graphic works, and photography from Rajon's early career. It does not identify particular print techniques, recurring subjects, editions, named series, or a reliable hierarchy of auction frequency, so individual objects should be classified from their physical characteristics and documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Rajon appears in auction contexts as both a printmaker and painter, so an appraisal should first identify the object's work type and medium and then compare it with genuinely similar lots. His documented name variants should also be reconciled when reviewing signatures, catalogue entries, and provenance records. Public auction data can contribute sale dates, realized prices, and comparable examples when complete lot records are available. The current source pack, however, provides no individual lot descriptions, conditions, editions, dimensions, provenances, or realized prices. It therefore supports category-level guidance but not a price trend, scarcity claim, or valuation forecast.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3370428
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/76585189/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500019115
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Adolphe_Rajon
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Adolphe_Rajon
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-adolphe-rajon/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Adolphe_Rajon,_by_Paul_Adolphe_Rajon.jpg