 He spent the school year in Paris and summers in Cádiz, where his father owned a business importing Argentine leather.Six years later, as relations between France and Argentina suffered owing to the refusal of Juan Manuel de Rosas to grant commercial privileges to ships of French origin—a matter which would not be resolved until the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado a few years later—the Pueyrredóns left Europe for Río de Janeiro.The city's liberal atmosphere encouraged Pueyrredón's artistic vocation.