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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was born in Paris on July 16, 1796, in a house at 125 Rue du Bac, now demolished. His family were bourgeois people—his father was a wig maker and his mother, Marie-Françoise Corot, a milliner—and unlike the experience of some of his artistic colleagues, throughout his life he never felt the want of money, as his ...
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. He first studied with the landscapist Achille Etna ...
A Flood- Avignon from the West
- Cows in a Marshy Landscape
- Dardagny, Morning
- Evening on the Lake
- Landscape at Arleux-du-Nord
- Monsieur Pivot on Horseback
- Peasants under the Trees at Dawn
- Seated Woman
- Souvenir of a Journey to Coubron
- Souvenir of Palluel
- Summer Morning
- The Four Times of Day: Evening
- The Four Times of Day: Morning
- The Four Times of Day: Night
- The Four Times of Day: Noon
- The Leaning Tree Trunk
- The Marsh at Arleux
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.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (Camille Corot for short) was born in Paris on July 16, 1796, in a house at 125 Rue du Bac, now demolished. His family were bourgeois people—his father was a wigmaker and his mother a milliner—and unlike the experience of some of his artistic colleagues, throughout his life he never felt the want of money, as his ...
Summary of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The hazy landscapes and poetic mythological tableaux of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot mark an important period of transition in French painting, from the academic Neoclassicism of the early 19th century to the vanguard developments of its later decades, when truth to life, and to emotion, became a more important marker of artistic value than historical or ...
- French
- July 17, 1796
- Paris, France
- February 22, 1875
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Camille Corot (born July 16, 1796, Paris, France—died February 22, 1875, Paris) 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 ...
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (July 17, 1796 - February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and ...
