Edouard Pail

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

He exhibited two landscapes at the Paris Salon of 1870: Le Ruisseau de Varennes near Corbigny and Les Chaumes de Corbigny. In 1877, he became a professor at the school of fine arts in Nevers. Then he abandoned this post to join Paris in 1880.

He then undertakes trips to England, Egypt, Palestine and Algeria. He married in Algeria in 1886, before settling definitively in Paris, boulevard du Montparnasse, then passage Saulnier. He nevertheless returns to Corbigny regularly, where he likes to work during the summer months.

Every year at the Paris Salon, he exhibits works on rustic subjects such as Le Doyen de la plaine, Les Oies au matin, Pâtis Poux in Corbigny or Le Ruisseau de Cropigny. In 1888, he was a member of the Salon des Artistes Français. He obtained a medal in 1893.

In 1896, he was named an Academy officer. In 1903, he became an officer of public instruction. At the 1912 Salon, he exhibited Le Soir at Mont Sabot and at that of 1914, L'Étang aux bruyères.