Rating and value of paintings by Théodule Ribot

If you own a work by or based on the work of the artist Théodule Ribot and would like to know its value, our state-approved experts and auctioneers can advise you. Our specialists will carry out a free appraisal of your work, and provide you with a precise estimate of its value on the current market. Then, if you wish to sell your work of art, we will guide you towards the best possible means of obtaining the best possible price.

Artist's rating and value

A pupil of Glaize and the author of a significant pictorial output, Théodule Ribot's name is little known. Yet the artist is highly rated on the art market and attracts many collectors. Indeed, at auction, Ribot's paintings are commonplace and popular. His oils on canvas are his most highly-rated works, and can fetch tens of thousands of euros at auction, such as his oil on canvas La gourde vide, dating from 1876, which sold for €160,000 in 2015. 

Order of value from the most basic to the most prestigious

Artist's style and technique

Théodule Ribot was a pupil of Glaize, using the same pictorial processes that were still part of the Académie. He was part of the realist movement, producing mainly oil paintings in fairly dark shades. He painted genre scenes and still lifes.  

Théodule Ribot, his life and work

Théodule Ribot was born in Normandy in 1823.

At first, he worked alone in linear drawing, then entered the Arts et Métier school in Châlons, and had to work on the side to support himself.

He then moved to Paris, where he studied in the studio of painter Antoine-Barthélémy Glaize. After a trip to Algeria to supervise construction sites, he worked tirelessly on his return to France, producing copies of Watteau for shipment to America by day, and working on his own production by night. He presented his personal works at the Salon of 1861, where the public took notice. He frequented Fantin-Latour, Eugène Boudin, Pierre Puvis de Chavanne and Claude Monet, who organized a banquet in his honor in his weakened state and symbolically presented him with a medal.

He died in Paris in 1891, leaving two children, including Germain-Théodore Ribot, also a painter. 

The legacy of Théodule Ribot

Ribot is not a well-known artist today; his peers are more widely recognized. However, his works are highly prized at auction. 

His signature

Not all Théodule Ribot's works are signed.

Although there are variations, here is a first example of its signature:

Appraising your property

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