Person
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French landscape painter and printmaker in etching
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (July 16, 1796[1] – February 22, 1875) is a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching.
Corot is the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century.
He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.