Paris 1838 – 1920
French Painter
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Paris 1838 – 1920
French Painter
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Girard Paul Albert was born on December 13, 1839 in Paris. He was the son of painter Pierre Girard. Paul Albert was a French painter of genre scenes, portraits, landscapes. He was also a watercolourist, painter of mural compositions and Orientalist painter of North African scenes.
He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1857, where he studied under Jean Joseph Bellel, François Edouard Picot and Hippolyte Flandrin. His work was exhibited at the Salon Paris from 1859 to 1913, at the Salon Dijon from 1887 to 1910, and at the Salon des Peintres Orientalistes. He won the Prix de Rome in 1861 for the category paysage historique for his painting entitled “The Procession of Silenus”. Girard was made a Legion of Honour in 1895. His oil painting “Ritual Slaying of Cockerels” is in the collection of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
For about twenty years, he painted portraits and landscapes, notably views of Normandy, the banks of the Loire and the Italian countryside. He made large orientalist paintings showing daily life in Kabylia and regions of Algeria.
He died on February 24, 1920 in France.