Albert Aublet

Albert Louis Aublet was born on 18 January 1851 in Paris. He trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, studying in the workshops of Claudius Jacquand and Jean-Leon Gerome, though the exact years of his enrollment are not documented in surviving sources. He made his Salon debut in 1873 and went on to exhibit regularly at the Salon de Paris, earning an honorable mention in 1879 and a medal in 1880.

His reputation grew through the 1880s. Following the success of an early Orientalist painting, he became president of the Societe des Artistes in Tunis, and he also exhibited at the Munich Secession and other European and American venues, though the exact dates of these showings are not documented in the sources reviewed. He was awarded a medal at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris (the specific medal class is not documented in the sources reviewed) and was decorated with the Legion of Honor in 1890. Later in his career he turned increasingly to sculpture, exhibiting busts at the Paris Salon between 1910 and 1936, and he also served as a professor connected to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

Aublet died on 3 March 1938 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. This date and place are given consistently by Wikipedia, Wikidata, and WikiArt. The art-historical reference database RKD lists 1938 as well, while flagging that the older reference sources Vollmer and Witt cite 1937; the weight of modern sourcing favors 1938.

No verbatim, attributable critical assessment from a named critic in a major outlet could be located for Aublet in the available sources. Contemporary secondary-market galleries describe him as an academic painter whose Orientalist and genre subjects, along with his nudes, place him within the mainstream Salon painting of his era. His institutional holdings, including a painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and works at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec, and the Musee d'Art et d'Industrie in Saint-Etienne, indicate a settled if modest place within museum collections of nineteenth century French academic painting rather than a figure at the center of ongoing critical debate.

A confident, sourced all-time auction record for Albert Aublet could not be established from public sources as of this writing. Market databases including Artnet, Artprice, and MutualArt track auction activity for the artist, but their detailed lot-level results sit behind subscription access and could not be verified against open catalog data. Secondary-market galleries, including Gallery 19C, Leighton Fine Art, and Mark Murray Fine Paintings, have offered his paintings for sale, and works have appeared at major auction houses including Sotheby's, but a specific record price, work, and date cannot be stated here without risking an unverified figure.

There is no catalogue raisonne and no estate or foundation overseeing Aublet's authentication, so provenance and documented Salon exhibition history carry significant weight when evaluating a work. His public auction record is not reliably verifiable from open sources, and figures found in general market summaries should be treated with caution until confirmed against a specific, dated sale. Collectors interested in his work are likely to encounter it primarily through specialist secondary-market dealers rather than through a living gallery or represented estate.