Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
1796-1875
French Realist Landscape Painter
Stylistically influenced by the following painters - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Cause of Death - He died of heart failure in Paris on February 22, 1875 and was buried at Père Lachaise.
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Camille Corot Biography
Camille Corot was born in Paris on July 26, 1796, into a family of upper-class merchants and bankers. His family embraced culture and young Camille grew up surrounded by music, art and literature. He worked in the business world before dedicating himself, at the age of twenty-six, to art fulltime. Corot traveled widely, sketching old ruins in Italy and Greece. According to his biographer, Mary Schell Hoke Bacon, " It is told that when he first went to study in Italy, Corot longed to transfer the moving scenes before him to canvas; but people moved too quickly for him, so he methodically set about learning how to do with a few strokes what he would otherwise have laboured over. So he reduced his sketching to such a science that he became able to sketch a ballet in full movement; and it is remarked that this practice trained him for presenting the tremulousness of leaves of trees, which he did so exquisitely."
He painted in
almost complete
obscurity until 1848
when he was discovered
by the art world. Carot's masterpieces
were soon in huge
demand. During his
lifetime he donated much
of his income to help
the less fortunate,
funding preschools,
providing food for the
poor and supporting
struggling painters. In
1846 the French
government decorated him
with the cross of the
Legion of Honour. He
died in Paris on
February 22, 1875 and
was buried at Père
Lachaise.
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