Collection: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875), 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.

He trained under Achille Etna Michallon and Jean-Victor Bertin. Among his most cited paintings: Recollection of Mortefontaine and The Bridge at Narni. His principal genres were genre art, history painting, and nude. His practice is associated with Barbizon school and French Realism.

The work sits within the Realism tradition.