Portrait Of Young Woman Art Nouveau Pastel Signed Jules Girardet, Golden Frame Dated 1910 Benezit

Old pastel representing an elegant young woman wearing a pink dress. Presented in an oval frame in wood & gilded stucco. 49.5cm in height. Dated 1919 and signed by the artist Jules Girardet: Very good condition. 1856-1938, painter, pastellist, watercolourist, decorator. Coming from a family of artists, Jules Girardet studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel. The artist traveled to North Africa with his brother Eugène, an orientalist, but preferred to devote himself to history painting and portraiture, which he exhibited in Switzerland and France. Girardet is a medalist at the Paris Salon of 1881 and obtains the silver medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1889. He creates a decorative panel for the Grand Council room in Neuchâtel