(1844); Mother's Love (1846); Revelations (1849); Departure of the Landsturm in 1798, Neuchatel Museum; Blind Beggar in Cairo (1845); Peasants and Bears, Difficult Letter, Little Apple Thieves (1846); Wooing in Bernese Oberland, Alms, Going to School (1848), Berne Museum; Sick Child, Zürich Gallery; Nest of Blackbirds (1849); Bad Weather on the Mountains (1850); A Land-*Slide; Village Wedding (1859). Was also an engraver.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 655; Vapereau (1880), 809.
GIRARDET, JULES, born in Paris; contemporary.
Genre and landscape painter,
pupil of Cabanel. Medal, 3d class, 1881.
Works: Little Fadette (1877); Return from
Market at Tanjier (1878); Skaters (1879);
Environs of Biskra (1880), Episode in Siege
of Saragossa (1881); Defeated Army of General
Lescure passing the Loire (1882); Rout
at Chalet, October, 1793 (1883); The Girondin
Louvet and his Friend Lodoiska, An
Arrest during the Reign of Terror (1884); A
Failure (1885).
GIRARDET, KARL, born at Locle,
Switzerland, May 13, 1810, died in Paris,
April 24, 1871. Genre and landscape painter,
brother of Édouard Henri, pupil of Léon
Cogniet. Travelled much in Europe and
the Levant, and accompanied the Duc de
Montpensier to Spain. Medals: 3d class,
1837; 2d class, 1842; Grand Medal of
Prussia, 1843; Member of Academy of Amsterdam,
1853; honourable mention, 1855.
Works: Hedge-School, Rabbits' Breakfast
(1836); The Righi, Starting for the Market
over Brientz Lake (1837); Protestants surprised
at Worship (1842), Neuchatel Museum;
Views of Sorrento, Capri (1842), and
Vesuvius (1843); The Nile; Mosque in
Cairo, Duc de Montpensier; The Bey's Tent
at Isly, Ioways dancing in the Tuileries
(1846), Versailles Museum; Egyptian Labourers
(1847); Restaurant on the Nile
(1849); Odalisque, Soldier's Return (1850);
Old Franciscan Convent at Alexandria, Lady
Claypole reproaching her Father Cromwell
with the Death of Charles I. (1853); Ceremony
of Hand-Kissing in Hall of Ambassadors
at Madrid, Lake of Brienz, View in
Val-de-Travers, Village and Lake of Brienz,
Neuchatel Museum; Episode in Battle of
Morat (1856), Berne Museum; Meadow on
the Aar, View on the Eure, Solitude (1859);
five views of Valais, Drinking-Place on the
Moors of Gascony (1861); View near Sion,
Fishermen of Albengo (1863); Mouth of the
Toccia, Moors of Gascony (1864); Sunrise
on Lago Maggiore (1866); Storm in the
Valais, Lake of Wallenstadt (1870). Made
designs for illustrations of the Orlando Furioso,
Thiers's Consulate and Empire, and
other works.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i.
655; Vapereau (1865), 748.
GIRAUD, (PIERRE FRANÇOIS) EUGÈNE,
born in Paris, Aug. 9, 1806, died in
Paris, Dec. 29, 1881. Genre painter, pupil
of Theodore Richomme, of Hersent, and of
the École des Beaux Arts, where he won the
grand prix de Rome for engraving in 1826.
After his return from Italy he travelled with
Alexander Dumas in Spain, and later in Algeria
and the Levant. Medals: 3d class,
1833; 2d class, 1863; L. of Honour, 1851; Officer,
1866. Works: Volunteer Enlistments
(1835); Marcel saving the Dauphin Charles
(1836); Armies of Condé and of Coligny
crossing the Loire (1839); The Promenade,
The Guide's Children (1840); Wasps (1843);
Ill of a Fever in the Roman Campagna
(1846); Dance in a Posada, The Gust of
Wind, Fire in Constantinople (1853); Algerian
Women, Flower-Girl (1859); Henri IV.
in the Tower of St. Germain-des-Prés, Gypsy
Woman of Seville (1861); Overflow of the
Nile, Moucharaby in Cairo (1863); Dancing
Girl in Cairo (1866), formerly in Luxembourg
Museum; Night in Paris (1866); Coming
from Vespers, Fatima (1868); La Devisa,
or Incident of a Bull-Fight (1869), formerly
in Luxembourg Museum; Confession before
the Battle, Hunting for Herbs (1870); Message,
Defended Gate (1872); Condé going
to the Army, Disenchanted (1873); Rest,
Jeweller in the Seraglio (1874); Second-*hand
Booksellers (1875); Flower-Market
