Edouard Girardet

Edouard-Henri Girardet (21 July 1819, Neuchâtel - 5 March 1880, Versailles) was a Swiss-born French painter and engraver.

From 1836, he worked on creating drawings for Les Galeries Historiques de Versailles, by Charles Gavard [fr].

In 1839, he went back to Switzerland, where he created scenes from the Bernese Oberland; the first in a long series of rural genre paintings.

In 1857, he went back to Paris, where he focused on engravings of works by well-known artists, including Paul Delaroche, Horace Vernet and Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Beginning in the mid-1870s, he took up painting again, and made lengthy trips to Brittany, Italy and North Africa, to provide himself with motifs.