Épinal prints were prints on popular subjects rendered in bright sharp colours, sold in France in the 19th century. They owe their name to the fact that the first publisher of such images — — having been born in Épinal, named the printing house he founded in 1796, .
The expression ''image d'Épinal'' has become proverbial in French and refers to an emphatically traditionalist and naïve depiction of something, showing only its good aspects.
The prints were also a regular point of comparison for criticizing paintings by Gustave Courbet, Courbet - notably his ''A Burial At Ornans, Burial at Ornans'' and ' - and Manet. Acknowledging the proximity of some of Manet's works, like his Fifer, Emile Zola, Zola turned the comparison into praise.
Image Gallery
File:Épinal - Cendrillon 12.jpg, Cendrillon la pantoufle.
File:Épinal - La Petite aux grelots titre.jpg, La Petite aux grelots.
File:Épinal - L’Oiseau bleu 08.jpg, L’Oiseau bleu.
File:Épinal - Cendrillon 14.jpg, Trouver chaussure à son pied.
File:Histoire du Petit Chaperon-Rouge (...) btv1b69380391.jpg, Histoire du Petit Chaperon-Rouge
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Printmaking
Épinal
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