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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (UK: / ˈ k ɒr oʊ / KORR-oh, US: / k ə ˈ r oʊ, k ɔː ˈ r oʊ / kə-ROH, kor-OH, French: [ʒɑ̃ batist kamij kɔʁo]; July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875), or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Born in Paris on 17 July 1796, Corot was the son of a cloth merchant and a milliner. After an education at the Collège de Rouen and two abortive apprenticeships with drapers, he was given the financial freedom at the age of 26 to devote himself to painting.
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, généralement appelé Camille Corot, né le 16 juillet 1796 à Paris [1] où il est mort le 22 février 1875, est un peintre et graveur français, un des fondateurs de l'école de Barbizon.
- 22 février 1875 (à 78 ans)Paris
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
- 16 juillet 1796Paris
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. French Painter. Born: July 17, 1796 - Paris, France. Died: February 22, 1875 - Paris, France. Movements and Styles: Neoclassicism. , Romanticism. , The Barbizon School. , Realism. , Naturalism. "I interpret with my art as much as with my eye." 1 of 8. Summary of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
- French
- July 17, 1796
- Paris, France
- February 22, 1875
A pivotal figure in landscape painting, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot was an influential and prolific artist, producing over 3,000 works during his lifetime, and inspiring countless numbers of forgeries and copies.
- French
- July 17, 1796
- Paris, France
- February 22, 1875
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, born in Paris in 1796, was the son of a prosperous draper and of a mother well known as a fashionable modiste in the years of the Empire and the Restoration. The infant was put in the care of a nurse in a village near L'Isle-Adam on the Oise river, where he grew into a sturdy and cheerful country boy.
Camille Corot was a French painter, noted primarily for his landscapes, who inspired and to some extent anticipated the landscape painting of the Impressionists. His oil sketches, remarkable for their technical freedom and clear colour, have come to be as highly regarded as the finished pictures.
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