Alphonse Giroux

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François-Simon-Alphonse Giroux (born April 6, 1776 in Paris ; † April 24, 1848 there ) was a French painter , restorer and cabinet maker .

Not only did he make outstanding furniture, but he was also the official restorer of Notre-Dame Cathedral and the producer of the daguerreotype chamber .

life and work

Golden Carriage of the Children of France by Alphonse Giroux offered by Louis XVIII. the children of the Duke of Orleans . Paris, Carnavalet Museum

Alphonse Giroux first turned to the painter's career under the direction of Jacques-Louis David and founded an art restoration company towards the end of the 18th century. He was the official restorer of Notre Dame Cathedral and collected and exhibited art by Louis Daguerre , Charles Marie Bouton , Charles Arrowsmith, Charles Renoux, and others. In addition to restoring art, his company made and sold furniture in various styles for the French royal family and others. From 1799 to 1848 he worked at 7 rue du Coq-Saint-Honoré in Paris.

Under the A. GIROUX à PARIS brand, his shop became a famous address for cabinet making. Carpentry began in 1799, his father died in 1848 and his two sons followed him in the direction of the workshops and the shop. Her specialty was the manufacture of very high quality small pieces of furniture for the bourgeoisie and the nobility. In Giroux, Charles X and Louis XVIII chose . the maker of gifts for two little princes: Princess Louise and the Duke of Bordeaux.

Alphonse Giroux won numerous national and international awards, including a silver medal at the 1834 exhibition, and became a real benchmark in the second half of the 19th century for boxes, various and varied chests, and small decorative pieces of furniture for pleasure or writing.

One of his sons, Alphonse-Gustave, continued his activity. Another, André Giroux, became a painter.

In June 1833, Alph. Giroux & Cie introduced the phenakistiskop in France as one of the first companies to release the animation device after it had been invented more or less simultaneously in Belgium and Austria .

A daguerreotype camera body made by Giroux, Louis Daguerre's brother-in-law , was exhibited at the Exposition des produits de l'industrie française in Paris in 1839 . It did not receive an award, although Giroux received a silver medal for a jewelry box. On June 22, 1839, Louis Daguerre and Isidore Niépce signed a contract with Alphonse Giroux and the Société Susse Frères , which gave them the exclusive right to manufacture and sell the daguerreotype chamber. In December 1839 François Fauvel-Gouraud went to the USA with a Giroux camera and presented how to use it in New York and Boston.

Alphonse Giroux is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery (26th division).

bibliography

  • Christophe Huchet de Quénetain, "La table à ouvrage ...», dans La Revue, le magazine de Pierre Bergé et associés, n o 6 mars 2005, p. 26-27
  • François Macé de Lépinay, Un âge d'or des arts décoratifs, 1814–1848, notice biographique dans le catalog de l'exposition, Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand-Palais, 1991, p. 524.

Web links

Commons : Alphonse Giroux  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archives de Paris - Wikipédia. Retrieved July 4, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ Visionneuse - Archives de Paris. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Giroux, Alphonse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giroux, François-Simon-Alphonse (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter, restorer and cabinet maker
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1848
Place of death Paris