# Ferdinand Roybet artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-05-16T10:19:00.000Z
Quality: high confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1840-04-12
- Death date: 1920-04-10
- Nationality: French
- Movements: 19th-century French genre painting
- Common media: oil painting, etching, engraving

## About Ferdinand Roybet

Ferdinand Victor Léon Roybet (1840–1920) was a French painter, engraver, and etcher best known for historical costume genre scenes depicting figures in 17th- and 18th-century dress. Born in Uzès, France, Roybet trained in Paris and built a reputation for richly detailed compositions that blended academic technique with a Romantic fascination for the past. His cabinet-scale paintings of cavaliers, musketeers, and fashionable court figures earned him recognition at the Paris Salon and among collectors of 19th-century European art. Over a long career, he produced both paintings and a substantial body of etchings. His work remains a touchstone for collectors seeking the costume-genre tradition in French Salon painting.

## Common works and media

Collectors most frequently encounter Roybet's oil-on-canvas or oil-on-panel genre scenes featuring cavaliers, court figures, musicians, and card players in period costume. He also produced a notable body of etchings and engravings, often reprising the same costume subjects in print form. Smaller cabinet paintings and study heads are common at auction alongside larger multi-figure compositions.

## Market and appraisal context

Roybet's oil paintings of costume and historical genre subjects appear regularly at auction, with 353 recorded lots in the Appraisily dataset. Values depend heavily on size, subject complexity, condition, and documented provenance. Larger Salon-scale compositions and works with strong exhibition history tend to command higher prices. His etchings and works on paper trade at lower price points but attract specialist print collectors. Attribution can be complicated by the stylistic overlap with his daughter, Madeleine Roybet, also a painter. Authenticity documentation and expert opinion are advisable before appraisal.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine identity research from authority files and public sources with auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots from major auction houses when those records are available.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3068651
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Roybet
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500021253
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/27852453/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/68681