Artists

Edouard Pail

French, 1851-1916

Edouard Pail is the son of a painter from Piedmont and a mother from his hometown of Corbigny (Nièvre). He is a student of local painter and engraver Hippolyte Lavoignat, a friend of Camille Corot, and a student at the Nevers School of Fine Arts.

He exhibited two landscapes at the Paris Salon of 1870: The Varennes Creek near Corbigny and The Chaumes de Corbigny. In 1877, he became a teacher at the School of Fine Arts in Nevers. Then he leaves this post to join Paris in 1880.

He then travels to England, Egypt, Palestine and Algeria. He married in Algeria in 1886, before settling permanently in Paris, boulevard du Montparnasse, then Saulnier passage. He nevertheless returns to Corbigny regularly, where he likes to work during the beautiful season.

He exhibits each year at the Paris Salon works with rustic subjects such as The Dean of the Plain, The Geese in the morning, Poux Poux in Corbigny or the Creek Cropigny. In 1888, he is a member of the Salon des artistes français. He won a medal in 1893.

In 1896 he was appointed Academy Officer. In 1903, he became an officer of Public Instruction. At the Salon of 1912, he exhibited Le Soir at Mont Sabot and 1914, L'Etang aux heather.

His painting takes as its main theme Nivernais landscapes treated in the style of the Crozant school to which he is attached. He practices outdoor painting. His favorite subjects are pastures and heathers, backyards, shady rivers, pink and misty panoramas. They are treated in free tones and a palette dominated by greens and browns.