Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan shawarar Léon Berthoud (1822<unk>1892), mai zanen shimfidar wuri na gida, ya tafi Paris, inda ya zama ɗaya daga cikin masu zane-zanen Switzerland na farko da suka yi aiki a ɗakunan Charles Gleyre. A cikin 1846, ya shiga makarantar École des Beaux-arts. Nunin sa na farko a Salon ya zo ne a 1848, kafin juyin juya hali
Ka yi haƙuri. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka, ya koma gida ya zauna a Berner Oberland. A can, ya yi wasu lokacin rani tare da 'yan'uwa Edouard da Karl Girardet da kuma Benjamin Vautier. Ya yi tafiye-tafiye na yau da kullun zuwa Paris don ziyartar abokansa a can. A shekara ta 1860, ya shafe lokaci yana zane tare da Gustave-Henri Colin a cikin Pyrenees.