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 anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.
Camille Corot was born in Paris in 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 parents made good investments and ran their businesses well. After his parents married, they bought the millinery shop where she had worked and he gave up his career as a wigmaker to run the business side of the shop.
Though holding Neoclassicists in the highest regard, Corot did not limit his training to their tradition of allegory set in imagined nature. His notebooks reveal precise renderings of tree trunks, rocks, and plants which show the influence of Northern realism. Throughout his career, Corot demonstrated an inclination to apply both traditions in his work, sometimes combining the two.
He died in Paris of a stomach disorder and was buried at Père Lachaise. - wikipedia
A Road near Arras Movement: Realism Collection: Musee des Beaux-Arts Arras, France Date: 1853 Artist: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
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A Village Steeet, Dardagny Movement: Realism Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Date: 1853 Artist: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
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Agostina Movement: Realism Collection: The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Dimensions: 52 1/4 x 38 3/8 in. (132.8 x 97.6 cm) Date: c. 1866 Artist: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Interrupted Reading Movement: Realism Collection: The Art Institute of Chicago, IL Date: 1870 Artist: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
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La Cervara, the Roman Countryside Movement: Realism Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Date: 1831 Artist: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
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La Toilette (Landscape with Figures) Movement: Realism Collection: Private Collection, Paris Dimensions: 70 1/2 x 36 1/4 in. Date: 1859 Artist: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
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Lady in Blue Movement: Realism Collection: Musee du Louvre, Paris Dimensions: 31 1/2 x 19 7/8 in. Date: 1874 Artist: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot