Background
The son of painter Pierre Girard, Albert studied at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1857 under Jean Joseph Bellel.
The son of painter Pierre Girard, Albert studied at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1857 under Jean Joseph Bellel.
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
Although he painted portraits and landscapes he is best known as an Orientalist painter of North African scenes. His work was exhibited at the Salon from 1859 to 1913, at the Dijon Salon from 1887 to 1910, and at the Salon des peintres orientalistes. His oil painting Ritual Slaying of Cockerels is in the collection of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Girard was made a Chevalier de la Légion d"Honneur in 1895.