Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
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View of Genoa Jean Baptiste Camille Corot15.jpg Painting ID:: 489
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1834
Art Institute of Chicago |
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Corot Camille
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French Realist Painter ,
1796-1875
French painter, draughtsman and printmaker. After a classical education at the Coll?ge de Rouen, where he did not distinguish himself, and an unsuccessful apprenticeship with two drapers, Corot was allowed to devote himself to painting at the age of 26. He was given some money that had been intended for his sister, who had died in 1821, and this, together with what we must assume was his family's continued generosity, freed him from financial worries and from having to sell his paintings to earn a living. Corot chose to follow a modified academic course of training. He did not enrol in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts but studied instead with Achille Etna Michallon and, after Michallon's death in 1822, with Jean-Victor Bertin. Both had been pupils of Pierre-Henri Valenciennes, and, although in later years Corot denied that he had learnt anything of value from his teachers |
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View of Genoa new9/Corot Camille-338695.jpg Painting ID:: 33850
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1834
Oil on canvas
29.5x39cm
Chicago,The Art Institute of Chicago
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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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(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. |
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View of Genoa new24/Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot-334393.jpg Painting ID:: 83889
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Date 1834(1834)
Medium Oil on paper mounted on canvas
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