Louis-Auguste Girardot is a French Orientalist* painter and lithographer, born September 27, 1856 in Loulans-les-Forges (Haute-Saône) and died April 22, 1933 in Paris.

Former resident of the city of Troyes and son of a mechanic, Louis-Auguste Girardot was enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts* de Paris from 1881 to 1886, a pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Paul Dubois. He became a member of the Société Nationale des beaux-arts* in 1890, and subsequently appeared at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts*. In 1887, the State acquired one of his paintings for the first time, and he was awarded the Marie Bashkirtseff Prize.

He obtained a travel grant that year and left for Spain, Algeria, and then Morocco, regions which ins...