Alexis François Girard
Alexis-François Girard (8 December 1787 - 17 January 1870) was a French engraver. He was also notable as the father of Jules Girard (1825-1902), Hellenist and member of the Institut de France.
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Alexis François Girard
Edme-Gratien Parizeau · internet · Public domain
- Name
- Alexis-François Girard
- Born
- 8 December 1787
- Died
- 17 January 1870
- Spouse
- Louise Marthelot (m.1820)
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- engraver.
- Education
- Beaux-Arts de Paris.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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Alexis-François Girard (8 December 1787 - 17 January 1870) was a French engraver. He was also notable as the father of Jules Girard (1825-1902), Hellenist and member of the Institut de France.
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• Name — Alexis-François Girard • Born — 8 December 1787 • Died — 17 January 1870 • Spouse — Louise Marthelot (m.1820) • Children — Jules Girard
Life
Life
According to his death registration he was born in Vincennes but no other evidence backs this. He also does not feature in the reconstituted birth records for Paris. According to Henri Beraldi, François was the son of Romain Girard, another engraver, who was one of those who worked on a set of illustrations after Nicolas Lavreince for an edition of Liaisons dangereuses (1785). Trained by his father, François engraved in his workshop, notably a series of large head studies after famous paintings of his time, all signed "R. Girard et F. Girard" or "Girard et Girard fils". Father and son lived at 29 rue Barthélémy around 1795-1800, next door to the Palais de Justice, at one end of the Pont au Change. He was admitted to the Beaux-Arts de Paris in Jean-Baptiste Regnault's class, but abandoned painting. In Paris on 11 July 1820 Girard married Louise Marthelot (1784-1861) Gustave Bertinot, Octave Tassaert, Élise Prétot (1831-1899), Jules Gabriel Levasseur and Girard's own wife all also trained under Girard. From 1835 to 1865 his prints were published by the maison Goupil. He was made a knight of the Legion of Honour on 14 August 1866.
Selected works
Selected works
• Young Tobias and Female Saint (1818), lithographs published by Bonnemaison, after Bralle (drawing) and Raphael, Montauban, musée Ingres. • Bellegarde (1819), engraving after Louis-Édouard Rioult (drawing) and Gérard, Pau, musée national du château de Pau. • The Soldier's Widow (1824), lithograph published by chez Chardon, after Ary Scheffer, Vendôme, musée de Vendôme. • Henri IV [portrait] (1827), stipple engraving after Rioult (drawing) and Gérard, Pau, musée national du château de Pau. • Study for the head of Cérès, after Prud'hon, engraving on paper, Gray, musée Baron-Martin. • Illustration — Portrait of Henri IV (1827), intaglio after a drawing by Louis-Édouard Rioult and a painting by Gérard (musée national du château de Pau) • Illustration — The Moor (1839), mezzotint after Christopher Wren • Illustration — Joseph Récamier, mezzotint after Paulin Guérin
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1787
Alexis François Girard was born on 8 December 1787.
1870
Alexis François Girard died on 17 January 1870.
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Deuxième fragment de Scène du Déluge d'après Girodet-Thioson, dessiné par Edme-Gratien Parizeau, gravé par Alexis-François Girard
Edme-Gratien Parizeau · internet
Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard, à la ville Madame Jacques Récamier dite Juliette ou Julie Récamier (Lyon, 1777 - Paris, 1849), femme de lettres et salonnière française. Portrait gravé par Alexis-François Girard en 1858 d'après un portrait peint par François Gérard en 1801.
Alexis François Girard · Lyon Municipal Archives
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- 1.Date inscrite sur sa tombe au cimetière du Montparnasse.
- 2.D'après son acte de décès, il serait né à Vincennes, mais aucune trace à l'état civil de Vincennes, comme à Paris où il ne figure pas dans les actes de naissances reconstitués.
- 3.Acte de décès (vue 26/31). Archives en ligne de la Ville de Paris, état-civil du arrondissement, registre des décès de 1870.
- 4.Notice Girard (Romain) 1751- . Les graveurs du dix-huitième siècle par Roger Portalis et Henri Béraldi, tome second, , Paris, Morgand et Fatout, 1881, .
- 5.Catalogue général de la BNF, en ligne.
- 6.Notice des archives de l'ENSBA, en ligne.
- 7.« Jules Gabriel Levasseur (Biographical details) » sur le site The British Museum, consulté le 25 mars 2017.
- 8.Fiche exposant Salon 1864, Base salons du musée d'Orsay.
- 9.Archives de Paris Une fille, Stéphanie Louise est née avant mariage, le 25/09/1817. L'acte de naissance reconstitué indique la reconnaissance et légitimation par le père lors de leur mariage qui est mentionné, voir vues 27 à 30. L'acte de mariage Girard-Marthelot ne semble pas avoir été reconstitué, après recherches.
- 10.Acte de décès (vue 18/19). Archives en ligne de la Ville de Paris, état-civil du arrondissement, registre des décès de 1861.
- 11.Exemple de correspondance entre Girard et Goupil, sur traces-ecrites.com, en ligne.
- 12.Base Joconde 06070044010 Ancienne collection du peintre Ingres .
- 13.Base Joconde 50170002739 .
- 14.Base Joconde M0277002335 L'adresse du graveur y est mentionnée rue Mignon (Paris) .
- 15.Base Joconde 50170000952 .
- 16.Promotions et nominations dans l'ordre de la Légion d'honneur. La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, 20 août 1866, , . Son dossier ne figure pas dans la base Léonore.
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Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the heading Alexis-François Girard. One child is recorded: Jules Girard. Other recorded relations include Adolphe Viollet-le-Duc.
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