Paul Armand Girardet
Paul Armand Girardet (22 May 1859, Versailles - 1915) was a French painter and woodcut artist of Swiss ancestry. Life and work. He came from a Swiss Huguenot family. His father, Paul Girardet, was a copper engraver. His brothers, Jules, Eugène, Léon and Théodore, as well as his sister, Julia Antonine (1851-1921), also became painters or engravers. His first drawing lessons came from his father. He then studied with the illustrator and woodcut artist, . He then learned oil painting at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, with Alexandre Cabanel. He lived in Neuilly-sur -Seine and, in 1893, married the sculptor Berthe Imer. After 1898, exhibited at the salon of the Société des Artistes Français. He specialized in color woodcuts; mainly producing views of landscapes and castles, such as the Palace of Versailles. His paintings were primarily genre scenes and landscapes.