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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| Portrait of Corot circa 1850 | |
| 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
Woman with a Pearl, 1868–1870, Paris: Musée du Louvre
A Woman Reading, 1869/1870, Metropolitan Museum of Art
La Trinité-des-Monts, seen from the Villa Medici, 1825–1828, oil on canvas. Paris: Musée du Louvre.
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".
View of the Forest of Fontainebleau (1830)
Venise, La Piazzetta, 1835
Plaque on the home of Camille Corot where he died 22 February 1875 at: 56, rue du Faubourg-Poissionnière, Paris, 10th arr.
Apple Trees in a Field, c. 1865–70, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute
Ville d'Avray, ca. 1867, oil on canvas. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art.
Meadow with Willows, Monthléry (1860s), Clark Art Institute, is an example of Corot's more impressionistic work
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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