Camille Pissarro was expected to work in his father's shop in the West Indies, not become an artist. After a long struggle, Pissarro arrived in Paris in 1855, where he studied with Camille Corot and met many of the future Impressionists. By 1866 he was painting entirely outdoors and living in dire poverty. On returning from London after the Franco-Prussian War, he discovered that German troops had
