Jules Girardet
Illustration — Jules Girardet (c.1904) • Illustration — Louise Michel at Satory in 1871 (date unknown) Jules Girardet (10 April 1856, in Versailles – 25 January 1938, in Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French painter and illustrator of Swiss ancestry.
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Jules Girardet

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- Born
- Jules Girardet was born on 10 April 1856. · Paris.
- Died
- Jules Girardet died on 25 January 1938. · Boulogne-Billancourt.
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- France
- Occupation
- painter · illustrator
- Fields
- history
- Education
- Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Jules Girardet (c.1904) • Illustration — Louise Michel at Satory in 1871 (date unknown) Jules Girardet (10 April 1856, in Versailles – 25 January 1938, in Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French painter and illustrator of Swiss ancestry.
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Jules Girardet studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history. Work by Jules Girardet is recorded in the collections of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Cholet, Musée Carnavalet, The Box and Williamson Art Gallery and Museum.
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).
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Jules Girardet is recorded with the occupation illustrator. Classed in the genre history painting. Recorded as painter and illustrator.

Jules Girardet, Paysage, 1877
Jules Girardet · Collection du Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds

Der zerbrochene Milchkrug, Öl auf Leinwand. 72x58,5 cm
Jules Girardet
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1856
Jules Girardet was born on 10 April 1856.
1938
Jules Girardet died at Boulogne-Billancourt.
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Jules Girardet was born at Paris.
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Jules Girardet died at Boulogne-Billancourt.
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- 1.Archives de Paris, état civil reconstitué, fiche en vue n°14 / 22
- 2.Archives des Hauts-de-Seine, acte de décès n°90, vue 10 / 150
- 3.Simone Abadie-Girardet, illustratrice du livre Leurs 400 coups : De tennis, d'André Lichtenberger et Étienne Micard, aux Éditeurs associés, Éditions du Monde moderne, 1925.
- 4.GIROUX, Émile - Engraver. oxfordindex.oup.com.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- René Burnand, L'étonnante histoire des Girardet : artistes suisses, La Baconnière, Neuchâtel, 1940, 299 p.
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