Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
1796
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1875
French landscape and portrait painter and printmaker in etching (1796-1875)
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 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.