# Arsène Chabanian artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:31:51.590Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1864-06-08
- Death date: 1949-04-22
- Nationality: Armenian, French
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking and engraving

## Portrait

![Arsène Chabanian](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Arsen_Shabanyan.jpg)
Kara98 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arsen_Shabanyan.jpg

## About Arsène Chabanian

Arsène Chabanian, also recorded as Arsen Shapanyan or Shabanyan, was a painter and printmaker who lived from 1864 to 1949. Authority records connect him with Armenian identity and professional activity in France, while a French biographical source describes him as a French painter of Armenian origin. Library records consistently identify him as a painter or painter-engraver. The collected sources do not establish a particular movement, favored subject, or named series, so his work should not be assigned to an unsupported school. Collectors may encounter works catalogued under several Latin-alphabet spellings, especially Chabanian, Shapanyan, and Shabanyan. Those variants matter when reconciling auction listings, historical catalogues, and bibliographic references. Appraisily groups these identity signals under the public Arsène Chabanian entity while keeping artist-name matching separate from conclusions about the attribution of any individual object.

## Common works and media

Authority records identify Chabanian as both a painter and a painter-engraver, making paintings and graphic works the best-supported appraisal categories. The collected sources do not establish favored subjects, named series, recurring editions, or a specific movement. Object-level documentation should therefore determine the precise medium, technique, support, and any edition information.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that the catalogued artist name resolves to the same authority identity across the Chabanian, Shapanyan, and Shabanyan variants. Medium is also important because institutional records describe both painting and printmaking activity; paintings and graphic works require separate comparison sets. Available public auction records can provide context when matched by work type and sale evidence. This source pack does not include item-level results, condition information, edition details, or major-auction-house analysis, however, so it does not support a price trend or typical value range. Any valuation should therefore rely on documented object characteristics and closely comparable public sales rather than the artist name alone.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20511922
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500130161
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/282420/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/111184894
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb149658943
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars%C3%A8ne_Chabanian
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/arsene-chabanian/