# Pietro Scoppetta artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/pietro-scoppetta/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:47:31.105Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1863-02-15
- Death date: 1920-02-09
- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Oil painting, Pastel, Watercolor, Drawing, Illustration

## Portrait

![Pietro Scoppetta](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Pietro_Scoppetta.jpg)
The original uploader was Ferdinando Scala at Italian Wikipedia . · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pietro_Scoppetta.jpg

## About Pietro Scoppetta

Pietro Scoppetta (1863–1920) was an Italian painter and illustrator born in Amalfi and associated with the artistic settings of Naples and Paris during the Belle Époque. Authority records describe him as a painter of genre scenes, figures, portraits, and landscapes, as well as a watercolorist, draftsman, and illustrator. A collected secondary source characterizes his approach as Impressionist and records his use of oil and pastel, although that stylistic label is not confirmed here by a museum or scholarly authority. His documented activity also includes book illustration, with watercolors reproduced for Marcel Prévost’s Lettres de femmes. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on paintings and works on paper spanning landscape, figurative, portrait, and genre subjects. The surname variant Scappetta appears in library authority data and can help connect signatures, catalog entries, and historical references. Multiple international authority records provide a stable identity foundation, while his detailed chronology, training, and exhibition history remain less fully documented in the collected sources.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Scoppetta’s name may include oil paintings, pastels, watercolors, drawings, and published illustrations. Documented subjects include landscapes, portraits, figures, and genre scenes. Because the variant surname Scappetta appears in authority records, both spellings may be relevant when checking signatures, historical catalogs, bibliographic references, and comparable auction records.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by identifying the work type and medium: the collected records associate Scoppetta with oil, pastel, watercolor, drawing, and illustration. Subject classification also matters because the authority record identifies genre scenes, figures, portraits, and landscapes. Appraisily provides an auction-record context, but the collected pack contains no major-auction-house biography or individual lot essay supporting claims about price direction, rarity, or premiums for particular categories. A defensible comparison should use public sales of genuinely comparable works and independently verify attribution, dimensions, date, signature, condition, and provenance from the object and its documentation. Those object-specific details are not established by the identity sources summarized here.

## 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. Identity and market evidence are kept distinct so that unsupported price or attribution conclusions are not inferred from biographical sources alone.

## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/160417198
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/62396414/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3904249
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500083981
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Scoppetta
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/pietro-scoppetta/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pietro_Scoppetta.jpg