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Girard d’Orléans
( fl 1344; d Paris, 6 Aug ?1361). French painter. In 1344 he coloured a litter for Louis de Châtillon, Count of Blois, and subsequently entered the service of Philip VI (reg 1328–50); by 1348 Philip contributed to an endowment made by Girard to the chapel of his confraternity in the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Paris. During the reign of John II, Girard, referred to as ‘dilecto nostro familiari Gerardo de Aurelianis, pictori, hostiario aule nostre’ and granted the further title of Valet de Chambre, became artistic factotum. He designed the furnishings for such events as the initial chapter of the Order of the Star at Saint-Ouen. Girard accompanied John II during his captivity in England, where he executed paintings, coloured a throne and a saddle and provided chess pawns. The inventory of Charles V at Vincennes (1380) identifies two works by Girard: a silk grisaille and a quadriptych. The latter may have commemorated the Treaty of Calais (1360) and be the painting mentioned in an earlier inventory as portraying Charles V, Emperor Charles IV, John II and King Edward III of England. Girard was buried at the Charterhouse in Paris, where, according to a contemporary document, ‘magister Aurelianensis, pictor, ...fecit pulchram imaginem beatae Virginis’. Although no documented works by Girard survive, the panel painting probably depicting King John II (c. 1350–60; Paris, Louvre; see GOTHIC, fig. 66) has been attributed to him.
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