Camille Pissarro (1830 Charlotte Amali/American Virgin Islands - 1903 Paris) River landscape with figures in front of a bridge and a town on a mountain A landscape executed with very fine, delicate strokes from his early oeuvre, probably around 1850-1860. Pissarro grew up mainly in the West Indies, where he met the Danish painter Fritz Melbye in 1850. Melbye encouraged Pissarro and in 1852-1854 they lived, painted and drew together in Venezuela. In 1855, Pissarro went to Paris, where he admired the paintings of Camille Corot, one of whose pupils he became, at the world exhibition there. In 1859, Pissarro met Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne at the Académie Suisse. In the mid-1860s, Pissarro began to break away from his teacher Corot and find his own style. In 1863, he exhibited paintings at the first Salon des Refusés and was praised by the critics. In 1866 and 1868, two of his paintings were admitted to the Salon. The young critic Émile Zola praised them effusively. In 1869/70, he worked closely and regularly with his friends Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and later also with Paul Cézanne. In 1874 he was one of the driving organisers of the first Impressionist exhibition and took part in all subsequent exhibitions until 1886. Pencil/paper. R. and black "C.P" stamp (Lugt 613e). 8.6 cm x 16 cm (passepartout). Frame. Pencil on paper. Black stamp "C. P." (Lugt 613e).