David-Eugène Girin was born in Lyon, rue de Sève (1st district) December 23, 18481. Son of Michel Girin, weaver, he enrolled at the school of fine arts in Lyon October 5, 1864, December 2 1867, he entered the painting class of Joseph Guichard. He was then trained by Antoine Jean Bail and, in Paris, by the engraver Lehman.

His first exhibition took place in 1868. During the Franco-Prussian war, he was mobilized and went to fight in Belfort in 1870, alongside other artists such as painters Claudius Barriot, Aimé Perret or the sculptor Jacques Perrin. When he returned, he started painting again and exhibited mainly in Lyon.

For seventeen years, he directed mostly genre paintings, still life before changing the subject in 1887. He was interested in landscapes. In 1888, he married Henriette Magnin, daughter of the chief accountant of the Gas Company, born in 1853. They settled on rue Ferrandière in Lyon.

The workshop of David-Eugène Girin is located in the second arrondissement of Lyon, in the former rue du Paradis, now renamed in the name of the artist. He traveled a lot: he painted landscapes of Martigues, Paris and Belgium.

David-Eugène Girin died on December 16, 1917. A retrospective of his work was organized the following year at the Salon d'Automne in Paris.


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Website of Proantic, 2019