“I told my father that business and I were simply incompatible, and that I was getting a divorce.”
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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 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.
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culture · French painter and printmaker (1796–1875) · painter · photographer · printmaker · draftsperson · architectural drafter · visual artist · also Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Baptiste Corot, Camille Jean-Baptiste Corot, Camille Jean Baptiste Corot, Kamilʹ Koro
Born 16 July 1796 · Died 22 February 1875 · Q148475
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1897· 1 entry
"There is only one master here—Corot
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1875· 4 entries
Died 1875-02-22.
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Donated 10,000 francs to the widow of Millet in support of her children
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“..and, to tell the truth, I find it very difficult to like new art. It is only lately, and after having been unsympathetic for a great while, that I at last understood Eugene Delacroix, whom I now think a great man.”
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“He [ Delacroix ] is an eagle, I am only a lark.”
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1874· 1 entry
A short time before his death, they presented him with a gold medal
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1872· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Order of Leopold (1872).
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Bought a house in Auvers as a gift for Honoré Daumier, who by then was blind, without resources, and homeless
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1871· 1 entry
Gave £2000 for the poor of Paris, under siege by the Prussians
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1867· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1867).
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1847· 2 entries
Delacroix noted in his journal, "Corot is a true artist
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In the manner of the Renaissance masters
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1846· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1846).
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The French government decorated him with the cross of the Légion d'honneur and in 1848 he was awarded a second-class medal at the Salon, but he received little state patronage as a result
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1837· 1 entry
Painted his earliest surviving nude, The Nymph of the Seine
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1835· 1 entry
Corot created a sensation at the Salon with his biblical painting Agar dans le desert (Hagar in the Wilderness), which depicted Hagar, Sarah's handmaiden, and the child Ishmael, dying of thirst in the desert until saved
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1822· 3 entries
Corot studied with Michallon's teacher, Jean-Victor Bertin, among the best known Neoclassic landscape painters in France, who had Corot draw copies of lithographs of botanical subjects to learn precise organic forms
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After the death of his sister, Corot began receiving a yearly allowance of 1500 francs which adequately financed his new career, studio, materials, and travel for the rest of his life
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“I made my first landscape from nature...under the eye of this painter, whose only advice was to render with the greatest scrupulousness everything I saw before me. The lesson worked; since then I have always treasured precision.”
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1817· 1 entry
The 21-year-old Corot moved into the dormer-windowed room on the third floor, which became his first studio as well
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1812· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée Pierre-Corneille (1807–1812).
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1796· 1 entry
Born 1796-07-16.
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