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COROT , See also:JEAN-See also:BAPTISTE CAMILLE (1796-1875), See also:French landscape painter, was See also:born in See also:Paris, in a See also:house on the Quai by the See also:rue du Bac, now demolished, on the 26th of See also:July 1796. His See also:family were well-to-do See also:bourgeois See also:people, and whatever may have been the experience of some of his See also:artistic colleagues, he never, throughout his See also:life, See also:felt the want of See also:money. He was educated at See also:Rouen and was afterwards apprenticed to a See also:draper, but hated commercial life and despised what he called its " business tricks," yet he faithfully remained in it until he was twenty-six, when his See also:father at last consented to his adopting the profession of See also:art. Corot learned little from his masters. He visited See also:Italy on three occasions: two of his See also:Roman studies are now in the Louvre. He was a See also:regular contributor to the See also:Salon during his lifetime, and in 1846 was " decorated " with the See also:cross of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour. He was promoted to be officer in 1867. His many See also:friends considered nevertheless that he was officially neglected, and in 1874, only a See also:short See also:time before his See also:death, they presented him with a See also:gold See also:medal. He died in Paris, on the 22nd of See also:February 1875, and was buried at Pere Lachaise.
Of the painters classed in the See also:Barbizon school it is probable
that Corot will live the longest, and will continue to occupy the highest position. His art is more individual than See also: See also:Millet, who thought more of stern truth than of aesthetic feeling. Corot's works are somewhat arbitrarily divided into periods, but the point of See also:division is never certain, as he often completed a picture years after it had been begun. In his first See also:style he painted traditionally and " tight "—that is to say, with See also:minute exactness, clear outlines, and with See also:absolute See also:definition of See also:objects throughout. After his fiftieth See also:year his methods changed to breadth of See also:tone and an approach to poetic See also:power, and about twenty years later, say from x865 onwards, his manner of See also:painting became full of " See also:mystery " and See also:poetry. In the last ten rears of his See also:work he became the Pere Corot of the artistic circles of Paris, in which he was regarded with See also:personal See also:affection, and he was acknowledged as one of the five or six greatest landscape painters the See also:world has ever seen, along with See also:Hobbema, See also:Claude, See also:Turner and See also:Constable. During the last few years of his life he earned large sums by his pictures, which became greatly sought after. In 1871 he gave £2000 for the poor of Paris (where he remained during the See also:siege), and his continued charity was See also:long the subject of remark. Besides landscapes, of which he painted several See also:hundred, Corot produced a number of figure pictures which are much prized. These were mostly studio pieces, executed probably with a view to keep his See also:hand in with severe See also:drawing, rather than with the intention of producing pictures. Yet many of them are See also:fine in See also:composition, and in all cases the See also:colour is remarkable for its strength and purity. Corot also executed a few etchings and See also:pencil sketches. In his landscape pictures Corot was more traditional in his method of work than is usually believed. If even his latest See also:tree-painting and arrangement are compared with such a Claude as that which hangs in the See also:Bridgewater See also:gallery, it will be observed how similar is Corot's method and also how masterly are his results. The works of Corot are scattered over See also:France and the Nether-lands, See also:Great See also:Britain and See also:America. The following may be considered as the first See also:half-dozen : " Une Matinee " (185o), now in the Louvre; " See also:Macbeth " (1859), in the See also:Wallace collection; " Le See also:Lac " (1861) ; " L'Arbre brise " (x865); " Pastorale—Souvenir d'Italie " (1873), in the See also:Glasgow See also:Corporation Art Gallery ; " Biblis " (1875). Corot had a number of followers who called themselves his pupils. The best known are See also:Boudin, Lepine, Chintreuil, See also:Francais and Le Roux. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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