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Abraham Girardet (30 November 1764, Le Locle - 2 January 1823, Paris) was a Swiss engraver and illustrator.

Biography

He was the eldest son of the publisher and bookseller, Samuel Girardet (1730-1807). In 1783, he moved to Paris, where he took lessons in drawing and printmaking from Bénédict Alphonse Nicollet (1743-1807), a fellow Swiss immigrant. His siblings, Abraham Louis, Alexandre,

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, and Julie (1769-1817) also worked as engravers. He remained in Paris during the early stages of the Revolution, creating depictions of major events. From 1792 to 1794, however, he returned to Switzerland and became a teacher in

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. This was followed by an extended trip to Italy. When he returned to Paris in 1795, he focused on making prints. Many of his best known engravings are taken from the

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in 1806 and 1808. In his later years, he was a drawing teacher at the

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Sources

* * * René Burnand: ''L’étonnante histoire des Girardet. Artistes suisses.'' La Baconnière, Neuchâtel 1940. * René Burnand: ''Les Girardet au Locle et dans le monde''. Éd. de la Baconnière, Neuchâtel 1957.

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