Family tree of Jules GIRARDET
Born Jules GIRARDET
French painter and illustrator
Born on April 10, 1856 in Versailles , France
Died on January 25, 1938 in Boulogne-Billancourt , France
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... Jules Girardet (French pronunciation: [ʒyl ʒiʁaʁdɛ]; 10 April 1856, in Versailles – 25 January 1938, in Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French painter and illustrator of Swiss ancestry.
Biography
He came from a Swiss Huguenot family. His father was the engraver, Paul Girardet.
He studied at the École des Beaux-arts and in the studios of Alexandre Cabanel. After several trips to North Africa with his brother Eugène, a noted Orientalist painter, he chose instead to concentrate on genre scenes and history painting. The Commune and Louise Michel were favorite topics.
He married in 1881 and built a house with a studio in Boulogne-Billancourt. That same year, he began to exhibit at the Salon. He won a Silver Medal at the Exposition Universelle (1889). In addition to his paintings, he illustrated several books, including Mademoiselle de Fierlys by Frédéric Dillaye (who died in the infamous fire at the Bazar de la Charité) and Tartarin de Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet. His brothers Léon, Paul Armand and Théodore were also painters or engravers, as was his sister, Julia Antonine (1851–1921).
References
Further reading
René Burnand, L'étonnante histoire des Girardet : artistes suisses (The Amazing Story of the Girardets...), La Baconnière, Neuchâtel, 1940, 299 pages
External links
Works by Jules Girardet at Project Gutenberg
ArtNet: More works (mostly of a non-military nature) by Girardet
Biography from Wikipedia (see original) under licence CC BY-SA 3.0
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