Edouard Girardet

Edouard Girardet [ʒiʀaʀdɛ] (* July 21, 1819 in Neuchâtel, † January 5, 1880 in Versailles) was a French painter and engraver.

Edouard Girardet was at first Kupferfercher and worked with the great work Les galeries historiques de Versailles in 1836.

In 1839, from a voyage to the Bernese Oberland, he brought with him the first of those finely observed and correctly drawn rural genre images which quickly became popular through him. From this time onwards he borrowed his motifs chiefly from this land, and was able to reproduce the local peculiarity in his simple and dramatic compositions. The wounded dog, The death of a child, The bibellecture, The table prayer, The story of the grandmother and The fatherly blessing are among his most successful works, The annual market in the canton of Bern and The auction to his last and most mature. Among his engravings, there are several sheets of Delaroche and Gérôme. Standard data (person): GND: 117545228 (PICA, AKS) | VIAF: 10118505 | Wikipedia People Search

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