# Adolphe Martial Potémont artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:20:00.479Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Death date: 1883-10-14
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Etching, Engraving and printmaking, Painting

## About Adolphe Martial Potémont

Adolphe Martial Potémont was a nineteenth-century French painter and printmaker, particularly associated with etching. He is also identified as Adolphe Théodore Jules Martial Potémont, Adolphe Martial-Potémont, and A.-P. Martial—name variants that matter when matching collection records, catalogues, and auction listings. Public authority records consistently connect him with French art and a career spanning painting and engraved work, although the collected sources disagree about whether he was born in 1827 or 1828. His death in Paris in 1883 is more consistently documented. No specific artistic movement is assigned here because the available source material does not establish one with sufficient authority. Collectors are most likely to encounter Potémont through etchings and other prints, with paintings forming another relevant work type. Careful name reconciliation is useful because cataloguers may index the same artist under Potémont, Martial-Potémont, or the shortened professional form A.-P. Martial.

## Common works and media

The available sources identify Potémont primarily as an etcher and engraver as well as a painter. Auction and appraisal searches should therefore consider original etchings and other engraved prints alongside paintings. The collected evidence does not establish recurring subjects, named series, edition sizes, or specific print states, so those characteristics should be documented from the individual object and reliable catalogue or auction evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Potémont's documented specialization in etching makes medium identification central to appraisal. A painting, an original etched impression, and another form of engraved print should not be treated as interchangeable objects. Name variants also require attention when searching catalogues and comparable records: Potémont, Martial-Potémont, and A.-P. Martial may refer to the same artist. The collected source pack confirms a substantial Appraisily auction-directory footprint but does not expose individual lot descriptions, conditions, editions, provenance, or realized prices. Any valuation should therefore be based on verified comparable sales for the same work type and technique rather than a broad artist-level assumption. This research does not support a price forecast or market-trend claim.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Here, identity and medium evidence is stronger than the collected lot-level market evidence, so market conclusions remain appropriately limited.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2824872
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Martial_Pot%C3%A9mont
- Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Martial-Pot%C3%A9mont
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500026628
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/19669472/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85113391
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb10741184k
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.4826.html
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/adolphe-martial-potemont/