Léon Girardet

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Léon Girardet (born April 10, 1856 in Versailles , † December 3, 1895 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French painter and engraver.

Léon Girardet came from a Swiss Huguenot family of engravers. His father, Paul Girardet, worked as a copper engraver. His brothers Jules , Eugène , Paul Armand and Théodore and his sister Julia Antonine also worked as engravers and painters.

Léon Girardet studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Alexandre Cabanel .

In the winter of 1878/79 he accompanied his parents on a trip to Algeria. He hoped the warm climate would improve his ailing health. He visited Algeria again in 1880 with his brothers Eugène and Jules.

Above all, he created anecdotal genre scenes from the so-called "middle-class milieu", which mostly take place in a relaxed atmosphere. The people in splendid robes made of precious fabrics that shimmer in the sunlight are often depicted in stimulating conversation. As a copper engraver he was only active in reproducing from his father's templates.

literature

• M.Tripet: Girardet, Léon . In: Carl Brun (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon . Volume 1: A-G. Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1905, p. 585 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Girardet, Leon . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 167 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• René Burnand: L'étonnante histoire des Girardet. Artistes suisses. La Baconnière, Neuchâtel, 1940, p. 299.
• Renate Treydel: Girardet, Léon . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 55, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22795-0 , p. 191.

Web links

Commons : Léon Girardet  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Girardet, Léon. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
• Girardet, Léon. In: Sikart