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Camille Pissarro
Self-Portrait, oil on canvas by Camille Pissarro, 1873; in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
While in Caracas, Camille Pissarro primarily sketched scenes of life on the streets.1
He had traveled to Venezuela in 1852 with the Danish painter Fritz Melbye, seeking to escape the constraints of his family's business and bourgeois life.1