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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.
Introduction Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (UK: KORR-oh, US: kə-ROH, kor-OH, French: [ʒɑ̃ batist kamij kɔʁo]; 16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875), or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching.
A foremost figure in the development of nineteenth-century French landscape painting, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was born into a family of merchants and started out as a draper by trade.
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot; Wounded Eurydice, 1868/70 Jean Baptiste Camille Corot; Arleux-Palluel, The Bridge of Trysts, 1871/72 Jean Baptiste Camille Corot; Bathing Nymphs and Child, 1855/60 Jean Baptiste Camille Corot; Souvenir of the Environs of Lake Nemi, 1865 Jean Baptiste Camille Corot; View of Genoa, 1834 Jean Baptiste Camille Corot ...
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.
Two hundred years after the birth of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875), 163 of the French artist's finest paintings have been brought together in an important exhibition that allows a public on both sides of the Atlantic to rediscover the riches and pleasures of his art. Corot, an original painter who produced a body of work of exceptional range, has been many things to many viewers ...
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 wig maker 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 ...
