Rating and value of paintings by Alexandre Marie Guillemin

If you own a work by or based on the work of the artist Alexandre Marie Guillemin and would like to know its value, our state-approved experts and auctioneers will guide you. Our specialists will carry out a free appraisal of your work, and provide you with a precise estimate of its value on the current market. Thereafter, if you wish to sell your work, we will direct you to the best possible arrangement to obtain the optimum price.

Artist's rating and value

A student of Baron Gros, author of a significant pictorial output, the name Alexandre Guillemin is little known. Yet the artist is quoted on the art market and attracts many collectors. Indeed, Guillemin's paintings are commonplace and popular in auction rooms. His oils on canvas are his most highly-rated works and can fetch tens of thousands of euros at auction, such as his oil on canvas L'odeur des fleurs fraîches, adjudicated for €18,150 in 2001.

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Alexandre Marie Guillemin, his life, his work

Alexandre Marie Guillemin was a 19th-century painter born in 1817.

During his formative years, he frequented the studio of Baron Gros, who trained him in the technical aspects of drawing and color. Guillemin went on to paint all over France, particularly in Brittany, where he depicted peasants. He was thus one of the " intimate painters " who abandoned historical painting to devote themselves to depictions of everyday life and nature : this was the beginning of the Romantic sensibility in painting.

Emotions were thus very much in evidence, and compositions were ultimately rather sober.

Guillemin mainly used the technique of oil on canvas ; he exhibited his work at the Salon alongside several artists of his era, particularly Romantic painters.

He died in 1880.

The artist's works and style

Guillemin's style lies somewhere between naturalism and romanticism, his canvases imbued with great simplicity but also great sensitivity.

He mainly painted oils on canvas, the category most sold at auction.

His signature

Not all of Alexandre Guillemin's works are signed.

Although there are variations, here is a first example of his signature:

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