# Maurice Bompard artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Movements: Orientalism
- Common media: oil painting, printmaking

## About Maurice Bompard

Maurice Bompard (1857–1936), born Jean Maurice Bompard in Rodez, France, was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Orientalist movement. He is recognized as one of the founding members of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français, an organization that promoted the work of artists who traveled to and depicted scenes from North Africa and the Middle East. Bompard's output includes oil paintings and graphic works reflecting the Orientalist themes prominent among late nineteenth-century French academic painters. His work appears in institutional collections documented by the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History and is cataloged in major reference sources including Bénézit's Dictionnaire critique. With over 180 works tracked in auction databases, Bompard remains a regularly encountered name in the nineteenth-century European painting market.

## Common works and media

Bompard's known works include oil paintings, drawings, and prints. His paintings frequently depict Orientalist subjects such as North African street scenes, market views, and figures in traditional dress. Printmaking (peintre-graveur) is documented as a secondary medium. Works range from small cabinet-scale canvases to larger exhibition pieces. Collectors encountering Bompard's work in appraisal or auction contexts should expect oil paintings as the most common medium, with graphic works appearing less frequently.

## Market and appraisal context

Maurice Bompard's paintings appear at auction primarily within 19th-century European Paintings and Orientalist Art categories. Works are typically oil on canvas depicting North African, Middle Eastern, or Mediterranean subjects. Key valuation factors include attribution, provenance, condition, dimensions, and the specificity and quality of the Orientalist subject matter. Collectors should verify authenticity through expert consultation, as no catalogue raisonné appears to be currently available. Auction results for Bompard have been recorded across major and regional houses, providing comparable sale data for appraisal purposes.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research from authority files and institutional sources with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Maurice Bompard, identity data is drawn from the Getty Union List of Artist Names, VIAF, the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, and Wikidata.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3300449
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Bompard_(painter)
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500069240
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/54420328/
- RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/10246
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013082336
