Louis Buvelot: career timeline

Swiss · 1814–1888 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 20 of 24 lots (83% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Louis Buvelot: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
1860s	3	3	$12.5kSign up	Watercolor
1870s	14	13	$23.9kSign up	Oil
1880s	2	2	$5.3kSign up	Oil

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1860s 3 works

Sold: 3 of 3
Median: $12.5kSign up
Average: $38.9kSign up
Typical size: 13 × 18.5 in (33 × 47 cm)
Mediums: Watercolor (1), Oil (1), Drawing (1)
Subjects: —

1860 Oast Houses, Tasmania$1.7kSign up
1867 Summer Afternoon, Templestowe 1867$103kSign up
1868 THE DEVIL'S POOL (WANNON FALLS) 1868$12.5kSign up

1870s 14 works

Sold: 13 of 14
Median: $23.9kSign up
Average: $32.5kSign up
Typical size: 10 × 15 in (26 × 38 cm)
Mediums: Oil (8), Watercolor (6)
Subjects: Rivers & marshes (3), Landscapes (3), Sunsets & night (1)

1870 Emu Creek near Terrinallum, Darlington, Victoria c1870$55kSign up
1871 The Yarra Valley 1871$8.7kSign up
1873 Fernshaw (1873)$23.9kSign up
1873 (Landscape) 1873$7.8kSign up
1875 Untitled (Settler's Cottage) 1875$27.8kSign up
1876 A Picnic Near Lilydale$4.1kSign up
1876 Goodman's Creek, Bacchus Marsh 1876$82.5kSign up
1877 Pastoral 1877$87.8kSign up
1877 Sunset in the Western District 1877$63.7kSign up
1878 At Malvern 1878$33.9kSign up
1878 At Bacchus Marsh$3.3kSign up
1878 Landscape with Gum Trees 1878Unsold

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1878 (Pastoral) 1878$5.5kSign up · sold 2×
1878 LOOKING TO KNOX CHURCH, MELBOURNE 1878$18.7kSign up

1880s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $5.3kSign up
Average: $5.3kSign up
Typical size: 11.5 × 15 in (29 × 38 cm)
Mediums: Oil (1), Watercolor (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (1)

1882 Australian Pastoral c1882$9kSign up
1883 Pool with Figures$1.7kSign up

Creation date not recorded

4 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 2010s 2 works

Sold: 1 of 2
Median: $2.6kSign up
Average: $2.6kSign up
Typical size: 6.5 × 9.5 in (17 × 25 cm)
Mediums: Oil (1), Watercolor (1)
Subjects: Rivers & marshes (1)

sold 2014 UntitledUnsold
sold 2018 Lake Scene$2.6kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 2 works

Sold: 2 of 2
Median: $1.5kSign up
Average: $1.5kSign up
Typical size: 10 × 9 in (25 × 23 cm)
Mediums: Watercolor (2)
Subjects: Rivers & marshes (1)

sold 2021 Castle Ruins$930Sign up
sold 2021 Cottage by the River$2kSign up

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Louis Buvelot auction results →