# Paul Sieffert artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:13:51.647Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1874-11-11
- Death date: 1957-08-20
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Oil on canvas, Illustration

## About Paul Sieffert

Paul René Eugène Sieffert (1874–1957) was a French painter and illustrator born in Paris. Authority records place him within France's formal Salon culture: he studied with Jean-Léon Gérôme, Gabriel Guay, and Albert Maignan, exhibited at the Salon from 1894, and participated in the Salon d'Hiver between 1910 and 1944. He received the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1902 and was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1931. Documented subjects include nudes and portraits, while surviving public artwork records show carefully modeled oil-on-canvas compositions, including reclining and sleeping female figures. Collectors may encounter Sieffert through paintings, illustrative material, and works catalogued under his abbreviated signature. No specific movement or school has been assigned here because the collected authority sources support his training and exhibition history more clearly than a formal stylistic classification.

## Common works and media

The clearest documented works are paintings, particularly oils on canvas depicting nude, reclining, or sleeping female figures. Authority data also identifies portraiture and illustration as parts of Sieffert's practice. Auction listings may additionally place records in works-on-paper, print, edition, decorative-art, sculpture, or mixed-media groupings, but these broader categories require object-level verification. For appraisal purposes, the medium, support, dimensions, signature and inscriptions, subject, date, physical condition, and any restoration should be recorded before selecting comparable sales.

## Market and appraisal context

A Paul Sieffert appraisal should begin with works that are genuinely comparable in medium, dimensions, subject, date, and condition. Signature placement, inscriptions, restoration, surface quality, provenance, exhibition history, and confidence in the attribution can all affect how an auction result should be interpreted. Appraisily's public index places paintings at the center of the available market evidence while also using broader categories for works on paper, prints, editions, decorative art, sculpture, and mixed media. Those broad labels should not be treated as proof that every category is characteristic of Sieffert's work. Public auction results are useful reference points, but they do not capture every private transaction or subsequent attribution change.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3372199
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96286258/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/172302293
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14933127x
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sieffert
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-sieffert/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nu_endormi.webp
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nu_%C3%A0_la_peau_de_b%C3%AAte.webp
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeune_fille_endormie.webp