The Quiet Observation of Form Pierre Paul Joseph Girieud lived a life shaped by the light of Paris and the stillness of the French countryside. Born in Paris on 17 June 1876, his hands were often occupied with the textures of oil, watercolor, and tempera. He moved through the decades of the early twentieth century, leaving behind a body of work that captures the weight of a seated figure or the specific shade of an iris against a red…