Imagerie d'Épinal, Historic printing house in Épinal, France

Imagerie d'Épinal is a printing works arranged around a gravel courtyard in Épinal, France. Its left wing is lower with a flat facade, a taller central tower with a steep dark grey hipped roof rises behind, and a long three-storey block forms the right wing. Rectangular windows have blue-grey trim and dark shutters, and painted figures fill several windows of the left wing and tower. A covered walkway with a dark metal roof runs along the left wing beneath a banner reading "Imagerie d'Épinal".

Jean-Charles Pellerin, a master cardmaker, founded the workshop in 1796, printing woodcuts on a hand press and coloring them with stencils and a round brush. From 1829 to 1845 it celebrated Napoleon, his family, marshals and victories. Around 1850 lithographic stones transformed printing, and by 1900 its cut-out sheets and paper theaters circulated worldwide.

The workshop shaped French daily life by producing affordable prints of military scenes, folk tales, and children's stories that reached homes across the country during the 1800s. These images became part of how ordinary families saw their world and passed down stories to their children.

The production workshops are currently closed to visitors while the city of Épinal develops a new project for the site. The building on the gravel courtyard, with its banner reading "Imagerie d'Épinal", can still be seen from outside. The sales catalogue remains available online at imagesdepinal.com.

The workshop holds more than 6,000 lithographic stones from the 1800s and 1900s, representing a tangible record of two centuries of print production that exists nowhere else in such quantity. Many of these stones remain functional and are occasionally used for printing, keeping this particular craft technique actively alive.