French landscape and portrait painter and printmaker in etching (1796-1875)
Corot painted the bridge between two epochs: his landscapes held one foot in Neo-Classical rigor and the other in the light-chasing experiments that would become Impressionism, making him the hinge on which 19th-century painting turned.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was born in Paris on 16 July 1796 and spent most of his long life working in oils, etching, and above all the landscape tradition he would quietly reinvent. Where his predecessors composed nature indoors from memory, Corot began working outside, watching the real play of light on leaves and water. His vast output—hundreds of canvases—carried the formal discipline of Neo-Classicism into something looser and more atmospheric, a style that pointed directly toward the plein-air revolution the Impressionists would make explicit a generation later. He died in Paris on 22…
Sourced, dated quotes from Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
I thank heaven that I was born in the same century as this remarkable artist [= Daubigny ].
You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under a tree; you watch and wait.
Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error; so listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling.
Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place.
I am never in a hurry to reach details.
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