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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,