# Paul Jacoulet artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1896-01-23
- Death date: 1960-03-09
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Ukiyo-e tradition
- Common media: Woodblock prints, Watercolor, Drawing

## About Paul Jacoulet

Paul Jacoulet (1896–1960) was a French woodblock printmaker, watercolorist, and draughtsman whose career unfolded in Japan, where he lived from childhood until his death. Working within the ukiyo-e print tradition, he depicted portraits, scenes of everyday life, and landscapes. His imagery drew on travel across Japan, Korea, China, and the Pacific islands, particularly Micronesia. This transregional subject range, together with his practice across prints and works on paper, places him in both Japanese-print and broader twentieth-century collecting contexts. Institutional authority records document his birth in Paris and death in Tokyo. Some older references assigned him a birth year around 1902, but the Bibliothèque nationale de France and IdRef give 23 January 1896; the BnF explicitly identifies the later date as erroneous. Collectors may encounter Jacoulet through woodblock prints as well as documented watercolors and drawings.

## Common works and media

Documented work types include woodblock prints made in the ukiyo-e tradition, watercolors, and drawings. Recurring subjects identified by the BnF include portraits, scenes of daily life, and landscapes. Works may also reflect Jacoulet's travels through Japan, Korea, China, and Pacific island communities, including Micronesia. Auction and appraisal searches should therefore distinguish prints from unique works on paper and compare objects within the appropriate medium and subject group.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming whether an object fits Jacoulet's documented media: woodblock print, watercolor, or drawing. Comparisons are most informative when they match the same medium and technique, then distinguish among portraits, everyday-life scenes, landscapes, and the geographic contexts represented. The collected institutional evidence does not establish object-level details such as edition size, impression quality, condition, provenance, inscriptions, or authenticity, so those points require separate examination. When public auction records are available, sale date, realized price, and similarity to the subject and medium can help frame comparable evidence. Aggregate record counts or isolated results should not be treated as forecasts for an individual work.

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## Sources

- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15076496q
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/157641600
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG175688
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q863170
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/121672198/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500320031
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jacoulet
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-jacoulet/