# Robert de Vaugondy artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:56:31.615Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Common media: Printed cartographic maps, Atlases and atlas maps

## About Robert de Vaugondy

Robert de Vaugondy is the name commonly associated with Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688–1766), a French geographer and cartographer, as well as with the cartographic work of his son, Didier Robert de Vaugondy. The two names are often encountered together in discussions of eighteenth-century French mapmaking, so careful identification is important when cataloguing an individual object. Gilles is also recorded as Le Sieur Robert or Monsieur Robert in reference sources. Collectors most often encounter the Vaugondy name on printed maps, atlas leaves, and related geographic works depicting countries, regions, coastlines, and political territories. These objects belong to the history of European scientific publishing and decorative printmaking rather than to a conventional fine-art movement. Their appeal can reflect geographic subject, cartographic detail, period presentation, and the survival of original printed and decorative features. Because auction listings may shorten the maker's name to Robert de Vaugondy, dates, inscriptions, publication context, and attribution wording should be checked before matching a work to a specific family member.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under the Robert de Vaugondy name are principally printed geographic maps, individual atlas leaves, and atlas-related works on paper. Typical subjects are countries, regions, coastlines, political territories, and wider continental areas. Cataloguing should record the printed title, mapped area, date or publication context, dimensions, inscriptions, margins, folds, coloring, and visible condition. Attribution should distinguish Gilles Robert de Vaugondy from his son Didier whenever the available evidence permits.

## Market and appraisal context

Robert de Vaugondy market records should be compared with objects of the same cartographic type, geographic subject, approximate date, dimensions, and attribution. Condition is especially important for works on paper: staining, foxing, tears, trimming, folds, repairs, and later coloring can distinguish otherwise similar examples. Inscriptions, publication context, completeness, provenance, and catalogue references may also affect how a map or atlas leaf is described and evaluated. The shared family name requires care because records may refer to Gilles, Didier, or the broader Vaugondy cartographic practice. Public auction results provide useful comparable evidence, but incomplete feeds, private transactions, attribution changes, and inconsistent treatment of buyer premiums limit direct price comparisons.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15736765
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500121777
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/22222471/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82000796
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12380752s
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Vaugondy
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Robert_de_Vaugondy
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1752_Vaugondy_Map_of_Greece,_Macedonia_%5E_Albania_-_Geographicus_-_TurquieEuropeenne-vaugondy-1752.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/robert-de-vaugondy/