The landscapes of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot,…

The landscapes of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, the leading painter of the Barbizon school, simultaneously reference the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipate the plein air innovations of Impressionism.

Of him, Claude Monet will later exclaim, "There is only one master here—Corot. We are nothing compared to him, nothing."

By the mid-1850s, Corot's increasingly impressionistic style begins to get the recognition that will fixe his place in French art.

From the 1850s on, Corot paints many landscape souvenirs and paysages, dreamy imagined paintings of remembered locations from earlier visits painted with lightly and loosely dabbed strokes.