Jules Girardet (1856–1946)
Napoleon in Plymouth Sound, c.1890–1900
(Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon at Plymouth)
Oil on canvas
H 112 x W 163 cm
The Box, Plymouth
After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was briefly kept prisoner on a warship in Plymouth Sound. The harbour became packed as crowds flocked to see their defeated enemy. Now the city is commemorating this most unlikely, and involuntary, of south coast holidays. More on Napoleon in Plymouth Sound
Jules Girardet (10 April 1856, Versailles - 25 January 1938, Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French painter and illustrator of Swiss ancestry.
Louis Marie de Salgues, marquis de Lescure (13 October 1766 – 4 November 1793) was a French soldier and opponent of the French Revolution.
Louise Michel (1830-1905) was a French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker. She sometimes used the pseudonym Clémence and was also known as the red virgin of Montmartre.
He married in 1881 and built a house with a studio in Boulogne-Billancourt. That same year, he began to exhibit at the Salon. He won a Silver Medal at the Exposition Universelle (1889). In addition to his paintings, he illustrated several books, including Mademoiselle de Fierlys by Frédéric Dillaye and Tartarin de Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet. His brothers Léon, Paul Armand and Théodore were also painters or engravers, as was his sister, Julia Antonine (1851-1921). More on Jules Girardet
Jules Girardet (1856–1946)
Le Général Lescure blessé passe la Loire à Saint-Florent/ The Wounding of General Lescure, 1793, c. 1882
Oil on canvas
H 152.4 x W 248.9 cm
Musée Birkenhead, Grande-Bretagne
Louis Marie de Salgues, marquis de Lescure (13 October 1766 – 4 November 1793) was a French soldier and opponent of the French Revolution.
At the Battle of Fontenay-le-Comte, he was the first to enter the city and free the Vendéan prisoners inside. He was wounded at the Battle of Saumur in June. After an unsuccessful attack on Nantes, he joined forces with La Rochejaquelein and tried in vain to rally the troops of the dispersed Catholic and Royal Army. More on Louis Marie de Salgues
JULES GIRARDET (1856-1938)
The Rebels of Fouesnant returned to Quimper by the National Guard in 1792, c. 1886-1887
Oil on canvas
H. 158 cm - L. 221,5 cm
Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper
Girardet specialised in representations of the Counter-Revolution in Brittany, and enjoyed a certain success in the years approaching the centenary of 1789. The events that took place in Fouesnant in 1792 were more of a news story than a Revolution. The prisoner at the head of the convoy resembles the ringleader, but in reality he was arrested much later and the convoy never passed in front of the Locmaria priory in Quimper. The accumulation of details is intended to convey the artist’s intention to present a « serious documentary », even though he takes liberties with history. More on this painting
He came from a Swiss Huguenot family. His father was the engraver, Paul Girardet.
Jules Girardet (1856–1938)
FRENCH REVOLUTION SCENE
Oil on canvas
55 x 65 cm
Private collection
Jules Girardet
Soldat blessé lors de l'assaut d'une église/ Soldier wounded during the assault on a church, c. 1884
Oil on canvas
33,5 x 43 cm
Private collection
Jules Girardet (1856–1938)
Louise Michel à Satory, c. 1871
Oil on canvas
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Saint-Denis
Louise Michel (1830-1905) was a French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker. She sometimes used the pseudonym Clémence and was also known as the red virgin of Montmartre.
Napoleon III prevented her from serving in a state school. She became violently anti-Bonapartist, and an anarchist in 1866, in the Montmartre quarter of Paris.
The pardon at the Chapel of Kergoat in Quéméneven was one of the most popular pardons because of the virtues of the waters from the nearby fountain. People came from all over Cornouaille, as shown by the presence of people from the Bigouden area. The artist, overawed by the number of beggars and the fervour of the pilgrims, conveys the movement of this procession as it goes around the monumental chapel. More on this painting
Jules Girardet (1856–1938)
Arrestation de Louise Michel en mai/ The arrest of Louise Michel 1871
Oil on panel
Height: 45 cm (17.7 in); Width: 37 cm (14.5 in)
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Saint-Denis
Having learned that her mother had been arrested in her place, Louise Michel surrendered to the Versailles soldiers, at the risk of being immediately taken up by arms. This is the moment that Jules Girardet (1856-1946) chose to represent in the painting entitled The Arrest of Louise Michel . We see a young woman at the head of a popular procession. Two armed riders push back the crowd cheering the prisoner with idealized features and ultimately not very resembling. More on this painting
Jules Girardet (1856–1938)
La déroute de Cholet/ Rout at Cholet, Octobre 1793, c. 1886
Height: 150 cm (59 in); Width: 251 cm (98.8 in)
Musée d'art et d'histoire de Cholet
Girardet’s brilliant painting of Rout at Cholet, October 1793 also from 1886 shows the tragic end to the war in the Vendée, when Republican forces inflicted their first serious defeat at the town in the centre of the region on 17 October 1793. Given the slaughter of Catholics and Royalists which had already started, they were really fleeing for their lives. More on this painting
Jules Girardet (1856–1946)
Pardon at Kergoat, c. 1891
Oil on canvas
H. 123,6 cm - L. 234 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts, QUIMPER
The work depicts the collective piety of the Bretons. On the Sunday following the Assumption, Kergoat's forgiveness in Quéménéven brings together thousands of faithful from neighboring parishes. The chapel is one of the largest in Cornouaille. Its importance is explained by the extent of forgiveness.
Together, to the sound of drums, the pilgrims, candle in hand, tour the chapel before entering it. Behind men and penitents, who walk barefoot, a group of young women carry the statues of Saint Anne and Saint Marguerite. Then the crowd advances. Near the tombs or leaning against the walls of the chapel, beggars implore alms. On the right, a young couple prostrate themselves in front of the passage of the statues. The composition closed on the right by the trees, without visible sky, and closed on the left by the Calvary and the gray granite chapel. He drew many head studies on site and painted sketches of the procession. Then in his Parisian workshop, he made this great composition. Exhibited in Paris at the 1891 Salon, then at the Universal Exhibitions of Chicago and Paris in 1893 and 1900. More on this painting
He studied at the École des Beaux-arts and in the studios of Alexandre Cabanel. After several trips to North Africa with his brother Eugène (See below), a noted Orientalist painter, he chose instead to concentrate on genre scenes and history painting. The Commune and Louise Michel (See above) were favorite topics.
Jules Girardet
A rest between chores, 1878
Oil on canvas
37 ¾ x 26 ¼ in. (96 x 67 cm.)
Private collection
Jules Girardet
A distraction from studies
Oil on canvas
24 1/8 x 30½ in
Private collection
He married in 1881 and built a house with a studio in Boulogne-Billancourt. That same year, he began to exhibit at the Salon. He won a Silver Medal at the Exposition Universelle (1889). In addition to his paintings, he illustrated several books, including Mademoiselle de Fierlys by Frédéric Dillaye and Tartarin de Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet. His brothers Léon, Paul Armand and Théodore were also painters or engravers, as was his sister, Julia Antonine (1851-1921). More on Jules Girardet
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