Alexandre Girardet
La Chaux-de-Fonds • Illustration — "Enjoying Freedom", festival celebrated at Alexandre Girardet (22 May 1767, Le Locle - 15 June 1836, Neuchâtel) was a Swiss engraver, illustrator and watercolorist.
Alexandre Girardet
Alexandre Girardet (1767-1836) · Public domain
- Died
- 1836. · Neuchâtel.
- Nationality
- Switzerland.
- Occupation
- friar, bookseller, drawing teacher, engraver, painter and artist.
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Alexandre Girardet. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q52149396 · wikipedia · Alexandre Girardet
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
The documentary record
Statements marked “Documentary record” are set in the article beside the passage they confirm. Each is read from the authority records of the institutions named here; select “Prove” to see the record it was read from, where in that record, and when.
Institutions cited
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Not stated by the sources cited: nationality
Complete reading chain (JSON)In this article
Life and work
Life and work
He was born to Samuel Girardet (1730–1807), a bookseller and publisher, and his wife Marie-Anne, née Bourquin. His siblings, Abraham, Charles Samuel, Abraham Louis, and Julie (1769-1817), also became engravers. He was married to Catherine, née Guion The brothers all studied engraving together. In 1783, he moved to Paris, to join Abraham, and work under his direction. He signed his works, "A.-G. le jeune", to distinguish them from the two Abrahams. He also painted in oils and watercolors. Among his illustrations are those for the picture book, La Suisse Romande (the French-speaking parts of Switzerland). In 1792, he and Abraham returned to Switzerland. Two years later, Abraham went back to Paris, and Alexandre took over his position as a teacher. Due to mental illness, he had to give up teaching in 1801. He eventually was forced to give up painting and most of his other activities.
Documentary record
Alexandre Girardet (1767 – 1836) was an artist. The birth of Alexandre Girardet is recorded in 1767, and the death in 1836.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1767
Alexandre Girardet born at Le Locle.
1836
Alexandre Girardet died at Neuchâtel.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Le Locle.
Birth place
Neuchâtel.
Death place
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Alexandre Girardet, revision 1342248346 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Prints
4,138 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Alexander Voet the YoungerEngraver
- Alexandre AlexeieffEngraver
- Alexandre BarrièreEngraver
- Alexandre CalameEngraver
- Alexandre-Gabriel DecampsEngraver
- Alexandru BassarabEngraver
- Alexej von JawlenskyEngraver
- Alexis François GirardEngraver
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Alexandre Girardet?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.