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under the Directory (1876); Criminal Court, Return from the Tavern (1877); Terrace near the Nile, Agreeable Meeting (1878); Hungarian Csarda (1880).—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 658; Meyer, Gesch., 706; Vapereau (1880), 814.
GIRAUD, SÉBASTIEN CHARLES, born
in Paris, Jan. 18, 1819. Genre painter,
brother and pupil of Eugène, and pupil of
the École des Beaux Arts. Has accompanied
as artist various expeditions, such as
that under Prince Napoleon to Northern
Europe, and has visited America. L. of
Honour, 1847. Works: Studio, Scene in
Hayti (1853); End of the Haytian War,
Princess Mathilde's Dining-Room, M. de
Nieuwerkerke's Library (1859); Fifteenth
Century Interior, View of Tinyvalla in Iceland
(1861); Hunter Returning (1863), Besançon
Museum; Fifteenth Century Interior
(1863); Interior of a Conservatory,
Breton Tavern (1865); Napoleon III., Gallery
of the Louvre, Interior of a Parlour
(1866); Room in the Musée Cluny (1867),
Luxembourg Gallery; Torture Room in
Castle of Pierrefonds (1868); Bowling at
Pont-Aven (1869); Return from Fishing
(1870); Women Spinning (1873); Landing-Place
at Brienz (1874); The Farewell (1875);
Flemish Interior (1876); Gathering Apples
(1877); A Sunday in Brittany (1878); Fifteenth
Century Interior (1883).—Bellier de
la Chavignerie, i. 659.
GIRAUD, VICTOR, born in Paris, Jan.
12, 1840, died there, Feb. 21, 1871. Genre
painter, son and pupil of Eugène, and pupil
of Picot. Works: Slave Merchant (1867),
formerly in Luxembourg Museum; The
Husband's Return (1868), Montpellier Museum;
The Charmer (1870).
GIRODET DE ROUSSY, ANNE LOUIS,
called Girodet Trioson, born at Montargis
(Loiret), Jan. 5, 1766, died in Paris, Dec. 9,
1824. French school; history and portrait
painter, pupil of Luquin and of David; won
2d prix de Rome in 1788, and grand prix in
1789. After five years in Rome he returned
to Paris, won the ten-years prize for history
(1810), and entered upon a successful career.
He painted few pictures, but made many
studies and designs,
and illustrated
numerous
books. Member
of Institute, 1815;
L. of Honour, 1816.
Louis XVIII. ordered
the cross of
an officer of the L.
of Honour to be
placed on Girodet's
coffin. Works: Death of Tatius (1788),
Angers Museum; Joseph discovering himself
to his Brethren (1789); Hippocrates refusing
the Presents of Artaxerxes (1792),
École de Médecine, Paris; Antiochus and
Stratonice (1793); Danaë (1798), M. Chatillon;
Landscapes representing the Four
Parts of the Day (1798); The Seasons (4
pictures, 1799, for King of Spain, copied in
1817 for Palace of Compiègne); Ossian and
his Warriors (1802), Leuchtenberg Collection,
St. Petersburg; Deluge (1810), Sleep
of Endymion (1792); Burial of Atala (1808),
Louvre; Napoleon receiving Keys of Vienna
(1808), Revolt of Cairo (1810), Versailles
Museum; Minerva, Apollo, Mercury, Nymphs,
and Bacchus (6 pictures), Hymen and Fecundity
(1817), Gods and Nymphs (1818),
Titon and Aurora, Dance of Greeks, Dance
of Nymphs, Justice and Valour, etc. (4 pictures,
1822), Departure and Return of the
Warrior, all at Compiègne; Napoleon's
Father (1805); Portrait of Napoleon I.,
Châteauroux Museum; Male portrait, Cherbourg
Museum; Young Woman's Head,
Lyons Museum; Burial of Atala, Amiens
Museum; Gorgon Head, Perpignan Museum;
Anacreon, Dante and Virgil, Old Man, and
others, Montpellier Museum; Aurora
(1806), Leipsic Museum; Pygmalion
and Galatea, Count Sommariva
sale, 1839, 14,000 francs;
Head of the Virgin (1812), Count
Perregaux sale, 1841, 3,155 francs; Fair
Elizabeth (his favourite model), M. sale,