swiss painter and copper engraver Charles Girardet (1780-1863)
brother Eduard Girardet (1819-1880); brother Paul Girardet; uncle: Swiss painter Abraham Girardet (1764-1823)
art studies w. the Paris painter Léon Cogniet (1794-1880); taught in painting by Louis Hersent
Switzerland
Edmond Charles: Voyage dans les mers du Nord à bord de la corvette la Reine Hortense, Paris 1857; Louis Figuier: Terre et les mers ou Description physique du globe, 1864; Louvre; Ludovico Ariosto: Roland furieux, 1839; Pierre Boitard: Jardin des Plantes, 1842; Rodolphe Töpffer, Voyage en zigzag..
King Ludwig Philipp I.; King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
engraver Sagot et Werner on: Alphabet illustré. 80 vignettes et lettres ornées ; Léon Cogniet ; Maximilien de Meuron ; brother Eduard Girardet: journey to Egypt ;
geographical and topographical drawing ; landscape and genre painting