Édouard Pail

Édouard Pail (17 October 1851, Corbigny - 6 December 1916, Villeneuve-le-Roi) was a French landscape and animal painter; primarily of sheep.

His initial studies were with a local painter and engraver, Hippolyte Lavoignat [fr], a friend of Camille Corot.

During the 1880s, he travelled extensively; to England, Egypt, Palestine and Algeria, where he was married in 1886.

He then settled permanently in Paris, although he paid visits to Corbigny every summer.

His canvases were primarily landscapes of the areas around Nivernais, in the style of the École de Crozant, with which he was associated.