Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Jean -Baptiste Camille Corot (* July 16, 1796 in Paris, † February 22, 1875 ) was an important French landscape painter. He is one of the main proponents of the Barbizon School.

Life

Camille Corot came from middle-class family. His mother was a successful milliner. Born in Paris, he first lived with a nurse in the country. After visiting a Parisian boarding school he attended high school in Rouen and served an apprenticeship as a draper. At age 26 he gave up the unloved business and pursued a career as an artist. He became a pupil of Jean -Victor Bertin, a main representative of the classical landscape painting. In 1825 he traveled to Rome and painted for three years in the Campagna Romana. Back in Paris, he moved into a studio in the Rue Voltaire. He went on journeys on foot through France, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

From 1827 he participated regularly at the Paris Salon. In 1846 he was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1867 as an officer. Corot is buried at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

His most important pupil was Camille Pissarro.

Especially in his later life devoted much of his attention Corot charity. His enormous commercial success he enlarged inter alia, through a sophisticated marketing concept of his works, he sat around in a wide range of social commitment. In the artistic milieu Corot mediated younger colleagues orders. Several times he donated large sums of money for the poor of Paris. 1872 Corot bought a home for the destitute and now blind Honoré Daumier. In 1875, he donated the widow of Jean -François Millet 10,000 francs, so that they could deny the upkeep of their children. In addition, Corot supported a crèche in the Rue Vandrezanne in Paris.

Performance

Corot was in Italy for his landscape painting with free, but tighter composition and subdued colors, which he developed after 1850 to a pure mood painting. Corot was one of the main representatives of the school of Barbizon, among others, also Théodore Rousseau, Charles- François Daubigny and Jean -François Millet belonged. In his later years he worked as Père Corot the father figure of the Parisian art scene and was considered the leading landscape painters of France. His contemporaries include William Turner and John Constable. In addition to the landscape painting Corot also created portraits of women.

Corot had influenced the development of Impressionism crucial. Several well-known painter appealed to Corot and called themselves his disciples about Eugène Boudin, Stanislas Lepine, Antoine Chintreuil, François -Louis Français, Berthe Morisot, Charles Le Roux and Barthélemy Menn.

Works

  • Bridge of Narni - Augustus bridge over the Nera (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1826, oil on canvas, 34 × 48 cm
  • Colosseum and Farnese Gardens in Rome (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1826, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 48 cm
  • The Albanian (L' albanaise ) exhibited in New York at the Brooklyn Museum
  • Forum and the Farnese Gardens in Rome ( Paris, Musée d' Orsay ), 1826, oil on canvas, 28.8 × 50.4 cm
  • Castel Gandolfo ( Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts ), 1826, oil on canvas, 36.3 × 28.3 cm
  • Woman with Mandolin ( Paris, private collection), 1826-28, oil on canvas, 34 × 26 cm
  • Italian with Pitcher (Paris, private collection), 1826-28, oil on canvas, 23 × 30 cm
  • Honfleur - Calvary on the Cote de Grâce (Paris, collection Renand ), 1830, oil on canvas, 30 × 42 cm
  • Forest of Fontainebleau ( Paris, Collection Renand ), 1830-35, oil on canvas, 48 × 59 cm
  • Cottages with mill on the bank of the stream (Paris, Musée Cocnacq -Jay ), 1831, oil on canvas, 53 × 54 cm
  • Portrait of Octavie Sennegon (Paris, collection Renand ), 1833, oil on canvas, 35 × 29.5 cm
  • City and Lake Como (Paris, collection Peytel ), 1834, oil on canvas, 29.5 x 42 cm
  • View of Genoa ( Chicago Art Institute ), 1834, oil on canvas
  • Morning in Venice (Moscow, Pushkin Museum ), 1834, oil on canvas, 27 × 40 cm
  • View from the Boboli Gardens in Florence (Paris, Musée du Louvre), after 1834, oil on canvas, 51 × 73.5 cm
  • Seated woman with breast uncovered (Paris, collection Renand ), 1835, oil on panel, 24 × 18,5 cm
  • Hagar in the desert (Paris, collection Renand ), 1835, oil on canvas, 41 × 32 cm
  • View of Villeneuve- les- Avignon ( Reims, Musée des Beaux Arts), 1836, oil on canvas, 38.3 x 56 cm
  • Avignon from the West ( London, National Gallery ), 1836, oil on canvas, 34 × 73.2 cm
  • Portrait of Madame Charmois (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1837, oil on canvas, 43 × 35 cm
  • Château de Rosny (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1840, oil on canvas, 24 × 35 cm
  • Madame Legois (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie, Inv. No. 2413 ) to 1840-45, oil on canvas, 55 × 40 cm
  • Breton Women at the Well (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1842, oil on canvas, 33 × 25 cm
  • St- André-en -Morvan (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1842, oil on canvas, 31 × 59 cm
  • The Lake Nemi (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie, Inv. No. 3149 ), 1843, oil on canvas
  • Marietta - The Roman Odalisque (Paris, Musée du Petit Palais ), 1843, oil on paper, 29.3 × 44.2 cm
  • Portrait of Louis Robert as a child ( Paris, Musée du Louvre ), 1843-44, oil on canvas, 27 × 22 cm
  • Reading girl in a red jersey ( Zurich, Buehrle Collection ), 1845-50, oil on canvas
  • Une Matinée (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1850
  • Dance of the Nymphs (Paris, Musée du Louvre), circa 1850, oil on canvas
  • La Rochelle harbor entrance (Paris, collection Renand ), 1851, oil on wood, 27 × 40 cm
  • Hayrides (Moscow, Pushkin Museum ), 2nd third 19th century, oil on canvas, 32 × 45 cm
  • Stormy weather - the banks of the Pas -de- Calais (Moscow, Pushkin Museum ), 2nd third 19th century, oil on canvas, 39 × 55 cm
  • Forest Ville d' Avray at input 19 ​​(Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland ), second -third century, oil on canvas, 46 × 35 cm
  • Portrait of the Mother Superior of the Monastery Annunziaten in Boulogne- sur-mer (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1852, oil on wood, 36 × 23 cm
  • Ruelle d'un village ( Dardagny ) (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art), 1853
  • Way to Sèvres (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1855-65, oil on canvas, 34 × 49 cm
  • Macbeth (London, Wallace Collection), 1859
  • Girl in the greenery (Geneva, Musée d' art et d' histoire ), 1859, oil on canvas, 49 × 75 cm
  • Nantes Cathedral (Reims, Musée des Beaux Arts), 1860, oil on canvas, 42.7 × 55.8 cm
  • Nantes Cathedral (Reims, Musée des Beaux Arts), after 1860, oil on wood, 52.1 × 32.6 cm
  • Memory of Pierrefonds (Moscow, Pushkin Museum ), 1860-61, oil on canvas, 46 × 38 cm
  • Le Lac (Glasgow, Corporation Art Gallery ), 1861
  • Orpheus led Eurydice from the Underworld (Houston, Museum of Fine Arts), 1861, oil on canvas, 112.3 × 137.1 cm
  • Memory of Morte Fontaine (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1864, oil on canvas, 65 × 89 cm
  • L' Arbre brisé (Glasgow, Corporation Art Gallery ), 1865
  • Artist's Studio (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1865-66, oil on canvas, 56 × 46 cm
  • The letter (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art), 1865, oil on wood, 54.6 × 36.2 cm
  • La Zingara (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1865-70, oil on canvas, 54 × 38 cm
  • Resting Under the willows by the water (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1865-70, oil on canvas, 45 × 60.5 cm
  • Jeune femme aux Puits, previously Otterlo, Kröller -Müller Museum, 1865-1870
  • Agostina, the Italian (Washington, National Gallery of Art), 1866, oil on canvas, 138.6 × 95 cm
  • Reminder Marissel (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1866, oil on canvas, 55 × 42 cm
  • Woman with daisies ( Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts ), 1868-70, oil on canvas, 78 × 58 cm
  • Woman Reading (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art), 1869-70, oil on canvas, 54.3 × 37.5 cm
  • Landscape at Castel Gandolfo ( Paris, Musée du Louvre ), circa 1870, oil on canvas
  • Belfry of Douai (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1871, oil on canvas, 46.5 × 38.5 cm
  • Memory of Coubron (Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts ), 1872, oil on canvas, 46 × 55.3 cm
  • Pastorale - Souvenir d' Italie ( Glasgow Corporation Art Gallery ), 1873
  • Road to Sin -Le -Noble (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1873, oil on canvas, 60 × 81 cm
  • Pond Ville d'Avray (Rouen, Musée des Beaux Arts), 1873, oil on canvas, 43 × 80 cm
  • Woman in blue (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1874, oil on canvas, 80 × 51 cm
  • Interior of the Cathedral of Sens ( Paris, Musée du Louvre ), 1874, oil on canvas, 61 × 40 cm
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