Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875) was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching.
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| Born | July 16, 1796 Paris |
| Died | February 22, 1875 (aged 78) Paris |
| Nationality | French |
| Field | Painting, printmaking |
| Movement | Realism, Romanticism |
He is a key figure in landscape painting, and painted many works. He was in the Neo-Classical tradition, but he anticipated the "en plein air" (painting outside in front of the scenery) of impressionism.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Media
- Camille Corot - Woman with a Pearl.jpg
Woman with a Pearl, 1868–1870, Paris: Musée du Louvre
- Camille Corot - A Woman Reading - The Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg
A Woman Reading, 1869/1870, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- La Trinité-des-Monts by Corot Louvre RF2041 n02.jpg
La Trinité-des-Monts, seen from the Villa Medici, 1825–1828, oil on canvas. Paris: Musée du Louvre.
- Le pont de Narni - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - Musée du Louvre Peintures RF 1613.jpg
The Bridge at Narni, 1826, oil on paper. Paris: Musée du Louvre. A product of one of the artist's youthful sojourns to Italy, and in Kenneth Clark's words "as free as the most vigorous Constable".
- Forest of Fontainebleau-1830-Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.jpg
View of the Forest of Fontainebleau (1830)
- Venise, La Piazetta (Camille Corot).jpg
Venise, La Piazzetta, 1835
- Maison Camille Corot.jpg
Plaque on the home of Camille Corot where he died 22 February 1875 at: 56, rue du Faubourg-Poissionnière, Paris, 10th arr.
- Corot - Apple Trees in a Field, c. 1865–70.jpg
Apple Trees in a Field, c. 1865–70, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute
- Corot.villedavray.750pix.jpg
Ville d'Avray, ca. 1867, oil on canvas. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art.
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Prairie avec des saules, Montlhéry (1860s).jpg
Meadow with Willows, Monthléry (1860s), Clark Art Institute, is an example of Corot's more impressionistic work
Other websites
Media related to Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot at Wikimedia Commons
- Over 600 works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Archived 2020-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot at the WebMuseum