Indian summer in Dijon, Louis Auguste Girardot 19th century

Subject: View of Dijon, sunset in Indian summer. Medium: oil on paper mounted on a parquet wood panel. Dimensions: 28.7 x 21.4 cm. Signed LA Girardot at the bottom left, annotated "Dijon" and dated. Louis Auguste Girardot (born in 1856 in Loulans-les-Forges - died in 1933 in Paris) was an Orientalist painter. Son of a mechanic, he attended the Beaux-Arts from 1881 to 1886. He was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Paul Dubois. In 1887, the State purchased a canvas from him for the first time. He received a travel grant that same year for Spain, Algeria, and Morocco. During the French Orientalist Painters' Salon in 1907, he co-founded the Provincial Union of Decorative Arts with Etienne Dinet, Victor Prouvé, and Jean-Adolf Chudant. His works are included in the collections of the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay. Louvre Museum, Department of Graphic Arts: The Rif, landscape of Morocco. Arab child standing against a wall. Arab woman carrying a child on her back. Young Woman facing forward, one breast bare, 1892. The Light of Memory, 1893. Study of hands. Tétouan, Jewish cemetery, 1904. Musée d'Orsay: Tender Age, 1892. Jewish cemetery in Tétouan, 1904. Palais Bourbon: The Port of Tangier, 1895, (on deposit from the Musée d'Orsay).