Jacques François Joseph Swebach Auction Prices and Value Guide

Jacques François Joseph Swebach auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 170 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Jacques François Joseph Swebach auction prices: quick answer

Jacques François Joseph Swebach auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Jacques François Joseph Swebach
Source records
170
Market update
2026-02-16

Jacques François Joseph Swebach market snapshot

Jacques François Joseph Swebach shows developing auction liquidity with 33 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $600. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 5 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-28.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (58.3% · 7 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (33.3% · 4 sales)
  • $10,000+ (8.3% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$0
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
5
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-28

Artist context

About Jacques François Joseph Swebach

Jacques François Joseph Swebach portrait
Louis-Léopold Boilly · CC0 · Source

Born

1769

Died

1823

Nationality

French

Also known as

Joseph-François Swebach, Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, Swebach-Desfontaines, Jacques François Joseph, Swebach des Fontaines, Jacques François Joseph

Jacques François Joseph Swebach (1769–1823), also recorded as Swebach-Desfontaines and Fontaine, was a French painter, draftsman, and engraver born in Metz and active in Paris. Authority records associate him especially with military imagery, while biographical summaries identify genre and battle scenes among his recognized subjects. His documented practice extended across painting, drawing, and printmaking, which helps explain why collectors encounter his name on both paintings and works on paper. The Bibliothèque nationale de France records his participation in the Salon de la correspondance in 1783, the Exposition de la Jeunesse in 1783, 1788, and 1789, and the Salon du Louvre from 1791. IdRef also records his membership in the Académie des sciences de Metz in 1792. Because catalogues and authority files preserve several forms of his name—including Desfontaines, Swebach de Fontaine, and Fontaine—careful entity matching is important when researching cataloguing histories and auction records.

PaintingDrawingPrintmaking and engravingMilitary scenesBattle scenesGenre scenes

Common works and media

Collectors may encounter paintings, drawings, engravings, and other prints catalogued under Swebach or one of his several alternate names. Military scenes are especially well supported by the authority sources, while battle and genre scenes also appear in collected biographical descriptions. Works should be researched by medium, subject, and name variant rather than assuming that records filed under Swebach-Desfontaines, Fontaine, or Desfontaines concern different artists.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should first establish medium, object type, subject, and attribution. The BnF records painting, drawing, and printmaking in Swebach's practice, while IdRef and biographical summaries emphasize military, battle, and genre imagery. His many authority-file name variants can complicate searches and historic catalogue matching, so comparable records should be checked across Swebach, Swebach-Desfontaines, Fontaine, and related forms. The Appraisily artist page indicates a body of public auction records that may supply sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when individual records are available and sufficiently similar. The collected sources do not provide major-auction-house lot descriptions, condition reports, dimensions, provenance chains, edition statements, or a price chronology. They therefore support research categories and identity matching, not a price forecast or market-trend conclusion.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Drawings and works on paper
  • Prints and engravings

Value drivers

  1. Medium and object type, particularly the distinction among paintings, drawings, and prints
  2. Military, battle, or genre subject matter
  3. Attribution and reconciliation of the artist's numerous recorded name variants
  4. Comparable public auction records, including sale dates and realized-price context when sufficiently similar records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no fetched major-auction-house lot descriptions, condition reports, dimensions, provenance chains, edition statements, or detailed price chronology.
  • The available evidence supports auction-category and identity guidance but does not support a price forecast, market trend, or claim about scarcity.
  • Individual objects require separate examination; the source pack does not establish the attribution, condition, or provenance of any particular work.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Jacques François Joseph Swebach

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Jacques François Joseph Swebach worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

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