 Voulgaris followed several painting courses in parallel with his studies, in particular in the atelier of the renown painter Jacques-Louis David.He then became part, with his fellow student, the famous painter Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, of the first members of a whole new generation of young neo-classical painters from the 1820s, in David's suite, later called the School of Barbizon.This colony of landscape artists (called the "open airists"), grouping painters such as Charles-François Daubigny, Théodore Rousseau, Jean-François Millet or Gustave Courbet, were coming together a few kilometers from Paris to work in the forest of Fontainebleau which was for them a source of inspiration.