# Edouard-Bernard Debat-Ponsan artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/edouard-bernard-debat-ponsan/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:20:05.090Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1847-04-25
- Death date: 1913-01-29
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Academic painting
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Edouard-Bernard Debat-Ponsan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/%C3%89douard_Debat-Ponsan.jpg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%89douard_Debat-Ponsan.jpg

## About Edouard-Bernard Debat-Ponsan

Édouard-Bernard Debat-Ponsan (1847–1913) was a French painter associated in the available biographical sources with academic painting. Born in Toulouse and later dying in Paris, he worked across several subject areas rather than a single narrowly defined genre. Public summaries identify allegorical compositions, scenes of peasant life, and Orientalist subjects among the recurring contexts of his work. These categories place him within the collecting landscape of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French painting, although the present source pack does not contain a detailed museum biography or catalogue raisonné from which to reconstruct his training, chronology, or individual series. Collectors may encounter his name in auction records for paintings whose subject descriptions vary considerably. Stable identifiers from Wikidata, BnF, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and other authority catalogues help connect accented, unaccented, and expanded forms of his name across collections and sale records.

## Common works and media

The supported work type is painting. Available biographical summaries associate Debat-Ponsan with allegorical compositions, peasant-life scenes, and Orientalist subjects. The source pack does not establish recurring production in prints, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or editioned works, and it provides no reliable breakdown by support or painting technique. Those details should be established from the individual object and its cataloguing rather than inferred from the artist’s name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s artist page indicates a body of auction records, but this source pack does not include the underlying lot-level cataloguing or results. Market review should therefore remain comparative and evidence-led: distinguish paintings by subject context—allegorical, peasant-life, or Orientalist—and use public sale dates and realized prices only when the complete lot record is available. No price trend, ranking among subjects, or premium for a particular technique can be supported from this pack. Before drawing an appraisal conclusion, confirm that each candidate record concerns the same artist and work category; the authority identifiers assembled here can reduce errors caused by name variants.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q274285
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15016433k
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG24784
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500065458
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/10121342/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Debat-Ponsan
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Debat-Ponsan
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/edouard-bernard-debat-ponsan/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%89douard_Debat-Ponsan.jpg