# Pierre Joseph Buchoz artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/pierre-joseph-buchoz/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:14:31.235Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1731-01-27
- Death date: 1807-01-30
- Nationality: French

## Portrait

![Pierre Joseph Buchoz](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Portrait_de_Pierre_Joseph_Buchoz.tif/lossy-page1-1280px-Portrait_de_Pierre_Joseph_Buchoz.tif.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_de_Pierre_Joseph_Buchoz.tif

## About Pierre Joseph Buchoz

Pierre Joseph Buchoz (1731–1807), often styled Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz, was a French physician, lawyer, naturalist, mineralogist, and publisher. His public identity is better understood as that of an eighteenth-century scientific author and compiler than as a conventional studio artist. Botanical writing was central to his publishing activity, and material encountered under his name belongs principally to the printed culture of natural history. For collectors, the Buchoz name may appear in catalog records connected with botanical publications rather than with singular paintings or sculptures. Authority records help reconcile the spellings Buchoz and Buc'hoz, which is important when searching catalogs and comparing records. Careful attribution remains essential: an image associated with one of his publications is not automatically evidence that Buchoz personally drew, engraved, or printed it. Appraisal research should distinguish his role as author or publisher from the roles of any separately named illustrator, engraver, printer, or later reproducer.

## Common works and media

Public sources in this pack connect Buchoz most clearly with botanical and natural-history publishing, not with a documented studio practice in painting or sculpture. Auction and appraisal records may therefore concern printed material associated with his publications. The pack does not establish a dependable breakdown of formats or prove that Buchoz personally designed or executed any particular image. Cataloging should preserve separate credits for author, publisher, illustrator, engraver, printer, and reproducer whenever the object supplies them.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected pack confirms that Appraisily maintains an auction-record page for Buchoz, but it does not expose individual lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, editions, or auction-house commentary. The present evidence therefore cannot support a price range, trend statement, or claim that one type of Buchoz-associated material is more valuable than another. Market comparison should begin only after the object and Buchoz's role in it have been identified from reliable bibliographic evidence. Public sale records should then be limited to genuinely comparable material, with unrelated namesakes and merely similar botanical imagery excluded. Until item-level auction data is reviewed, any market conclusion should be treated as provisional.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Buchoz, the present source pack supports identity and publishing context more strongly than detailed market analysis.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3383203
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/10628616/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Buc'hoz
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Joseph_Buc%E2%80%99hoz
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Buc'hoz
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/pierre-joseph-buchoz/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_de_Pierre_Joseph_Buchoz.tif