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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Portrait of Corot circa

Born

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot


()July 16,

Paris, France

DiedFebruary 22, () (aged 78)

Paris, France

Known forPainting, printmaking
MovementRealism
Signature

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ( KORR-ohkə-ROH-,_-KOR-oh July 16,  – February 22, ), or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching.

A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.

Biography

Early life and training

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was born in Paris on July 16, , in a house at Rue du Bac, now demolished.

His family were bourgeois people—his father was a wig maker and his mother, Marie-Françoise