Born 13 December 1881, in Brugères-et-Montbérault (Aisne); died 12 October 1958.
Painter, draughtsman, watercolourist, engraver. Portraits, landscapes.
Pinal was a student of Henri Martin and Le Sidaner in Paris, then took courses at the École des Beaux-Arts. He won the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1879. Alongside his career as a painter, he worked as a civil servant at the Ministry of the Interior. He took as his subject the landscapes of Brie, the Île de France, Charente-Maritime and Brittany.
He took part in exhibitions in Paris: the Salon des Indépendants from 1910; the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1913, 1921, 1922, and 1923; the Salon des Artistes Français, of which he was a member, from 1922, winning a silver medal in 1941 and a gold medal in 1957 for his engravings; the1937 International Exhibition, where he received a silver medal; as well as many exhibitions in the provinces. He showed his works in solo shows, including the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, in 1929.
A retrospective exhibition of his work was organised by the Musée Bossuet in Meaux in 1994.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Château-Thierry (Mus. Jean-de-La-Fontaine): Bank of the Marne at Drachy (1948)
Lagny-sur-Marne (Mus. Gatien-Bonnet): Meaux; Bank of the Marne in March (1937); Bank of the Marne at Nanteuil (1942)
Laon: Church at Veuilly-la-Poterie (1919)
Meaux (Mus. Bossuet): Pont du Marché. Meaux
Royan: View of Vallières, Royan. Dull Weather (1927); Holm Oak at Vallières (1930)
