# Jacques Barthélemy Appian artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/jacques-barthelemy-appian/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:41:54.102Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1818-08-23
- Death date: 1898-04-29
- Nationality: French
- Movements: École lyonnaise (Lyon school)
- Common media: Painting, Etching, Printmaking

## Portrait

![Jacques Barthélemy Appian](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Adolphe_Appian.jpg/1280px-Adolphe_Appian.jpg)
Camille Dolard · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolphe_Appian.jpg

## About Jacques Barthélemy Appian

Jacques Barthélemy Appian, widely catalogued under the professional name Adolphe Appian, was a French painter and printmaker who lived from 1818 to 1898. Authority files align the full name with Adolphe Appian, while French biographical material identifies the latter as a pseudonym and places him in the École lyonnaise. Landscape is the best-supported subject context, and painting and etching are the clearest documented practices. For collectors, the practical issue is often entity matching: a catalogue, print record, or auction listing may use Adolphe Appian rather than Jacques Barthélemy Appian, and authority sources preserve minor spelling variants of the middle name. His public record therefore spans paintings and printed works, especially landscapes. Appraisily groups these names cautiously as one artist entity while retaining the aliases needed to reconcile library, collection, and auction data. More detailed claims about named series, editions, or chronology require stronger object-level sources than this pack provides.

## Common works and media

Landscape paintings and etched or printed landscape works are the best-supported common types in the available sources. Records may describe the artist as a painter, etcher, or printmaker and may index the same person under Adolphe Appian. The pack does not substantiate named series, edition sizes, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or other categories, so those should not be generalized from the present evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Market research for Appian should first separate paintings from etchings and other prints because the available authority records identify both practices. Comparable records should be matched by work type and landscape subject, and searches should include Adolphe Appian plus the documented full-name variants. Name matching helps prevent an alias from being mistaken for a different artist, but it does not by itself establish attribution. This source pack does not contain detailed major-auction-house lot descriptions or realized-price evidence, so it supports broad category identification rather than a price forecast. A defensible appraisal should rely on object-specific evidence and public comparables for closely related works when those records are available.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identities with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile's identity and work-type context is well supported, while its price-specific evidence remains limited.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q365656
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/69039286/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/181062607
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500009819
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Appian
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Appian
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Appian