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Definition: Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille from Philip's Encyclopedia

French painter, a leading 19th-century landscapist. He had more sympathy for the French classical tradition than for the attitudes of the Barbizon School, but was more natural than most classicists. After 1827, he gained success at the Paris Salon with more traditionally romantic paintings executed in a soft-edged style, unlike the precisely observed scenes of his earlier work. He was an important influence on Paul Cézanne and post-impressionism in general.


Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
French painter. He created a distinctive landscape style using a soft focus and a low-key palette of browns, ochres, and greens. His early work, including Italian scenes of the 1820s, influenced the Barbizon School of painters. Like them, Corot worked outdoors, but he also continued a conventional academic tradition with his romanticized paintings of women. According to the wishes of his parents, who had a fashionable dress shop in Paris, after education at the college of Rouen he worked until 1822 in a cloth warehouse, but was then given a small allowance to study painting. He spent a few months with the young and short-lived Michallon, who directed him to the study of nature, afterwards working under another painter, Victor Bertin. It is reasonable to suppose that he was impressed by Constable in the Salon of 1824; going to Rome the following year he showed in his first Italian landscapes a response to effects of sun and cloud that seems, as in the Claudian Aqueduct (National…
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Full text Article COROT, JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE 1796-1875

From Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot has been called the last neoclassical painter; he has also been called the first impressionist. There is truth in both statements. It is also true that there are traces of naturalism, realism, and Romanticism in his work. These five, sometimes merging, styles in…
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Full text Article Corot, (Jean Baptiste) Camille

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
1796-1875 French landscape painter Born in Paris, he became an assistant in a Paris drapery establishment, but in 1822 took up the study of art. He moved to Rome in 1825, but returned to Paris in 1872, and contributed his Vue prise à Narni and his Campagne de Rome to the Salon. His main sketching…
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Picking Daisies; La Cueillette des Marguerites, c.1865-1870 (oil on canvas)
Artist: Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) Location: Private Collection Credit: Picking Daisies; La Cueillette des Marguerites, c.1865-1870 (oil on canvas), Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) / Private Collection / Photo © Christie's Images / The Bridgeman Art Library Dimensions: …
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Group Of Trees at the Edge of a Pond with Three Peasants; Groupe D'Arbres au Bord d'un Etang, avec Trois Paysaannes, c.1865-1870 (oil on canvas)
Artist: Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) Location: Private Collection Credit: Group Of Trees at the Edge of a Pond with Three Peasants; Groupe D'Arbres au Bord d'un Etang, avec Trois Paysaannes, c.1865-1870 (oil on canvas), Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) / Private Collection / …
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A River in Romagna; Un Torrent dans des Romagnes, (oil on canvas)
Artist: Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) Location: Private Collection Credit: A River in Romagna; Un Torrent dans des Romagnes, (oil on canvas), Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) / Private Collection / Photo © Christie's Images / The Bridgeman Art Library Dimensions: 65.6x90.8 Medium: …
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The Ford; Cows on the Edge of a Ford; Le Gue; Vaches au Bord du Gue, c.1870-1873 (oil on canvas)
Artist: Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) Location: Private Collection Credit: The Ford; Cows on the Edge of a Ford; Le Gue; Vaches au Bord du Gue, c.1870-1873 (oil on canvas), Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) / Private Collection / Photo © Christie's Images / The Bridgeman Art…
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Clairiere du Bois Pierre, aux Evaux, Pres Chateau-Thierry, c.1855-65 (oil on panel)
Artist: Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) Location: Private Collection Credit: Clairiere du Bois Pierre, aux Evaux, Pres Chateau-Thierry, c.1855-65 (oil on panel), Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) / Private Collection / Photo © Christie's Images / The Bridgeman Art Library Dimensions: …
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Full text Article Coubron-Route Montante, c.1870 (oil on canvas)

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Coubron-Route Montante, c.1870 (oil on canvas)
Artist: Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) Location: Private Collection Credit: Coubron-Route Montante, c.1870 (oil on canvas), Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) / Private Collection / Photo © Christie's Images / The Bridgeman Art Library Dimensions: 25.5x35.5 Date: c.1870 Medium: oil…
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Peasant in Prayer; Paysan en Priere, (oil on canvas)
Artist: Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) Location: Private Collection Credit: Peasant in Prayer; Paysan en Priere, (oil on canvas), Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) / Private Collection / Photo © Christie's Images / The Bridgeman Art Library Dimensions: 49.5x36.2 Medium: oil on…
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Young Italian boy on the Mountain; Jeune Patre Italien dans le Montagne, c.1845-55 (oil on panel)
Artist: Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) Location: Private Collection Credit: Young Italian boy on the Mountain; Jeune Patre Italien dans le Montagne, c.1845-55 (oil on panel), Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (1796-1875) / Private Collection / Photo © Christie's Images / The Bridgeman Art…
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