Born at St Thomas, West Indies, Pissarro worked as a clerk in his father's store.  His father accepted Pissarro's true vocation in 1855 and sent him to Paris to study art.  He was a pupil of Corot.

Landscape at Chaponval
Camille Pissarro, 1830-1903, French
Musee d'Orsay, Paris
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