Camille Pissarro was a French painter whose work focused on capturing life outside the elite circles of French society, with a style built around painting subjects and landscapes as accurately as possible, trying as much as possible to capture the interplay between light and colour in natural settings.
At the age of 12, Camille Pissaro was sent to the Savary Academy in Passy just outside Paris, where he found an appreciation of the French art masters.
1855, Camille Pissarro moved back to France where he worked as an assistant to Anton Melbye. He started studying paintings from artists whose works impressed him greatly.
So, like so many other artists, Pissarro worked in accordance with what the committee demanded and in 1859, he had his first painting approved and put on exhibition.
At this time Pissarro, reconnected with Impressionist peers such as Cézanne and Renoir, and told the group that he wanted to break away from the Salon.
In his subsequent years, Camille Pissarro was affected by a continuous eye infection that, unless it was warm outside, restricted him from working outside.
Two Young Peasant Women (1892) was a reflection of Pissarro’s brief dalliance with the world of printing and, the compositional practices of Japanese woodblock printmakers.