Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ART FOR SALE

1796 Paris, France - 1875 Ville d'Avray, France. Known for: Tonalist landscape painting.

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The following was written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, art researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. Jean Baptiste Camille Corot was born in Paris in 1796 in a house on a corner that looked out on the bridges that loop the Seine. His father ran a fashionable millinery shop. He was twenty-six years old when he entered the studio of landscape painter Achille-Etna Michallon, an artist no older than himself who encouraged him to work en plein air. Michallon died only a few months later, leaving Corot to continue his training with the much older artist Jean-Victor Bertin (who had been Michallon's teacher). After his schooling, Camille was apprenticed to a draper He was sweet and kind but he was also stubborn, He refused to marry the... Read full biography

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Type:Painting

Year:N/A

Size:28.50" x 40.00" x 3.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Left

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Artist, Year, Title: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, (1796-1875). Origin: French. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 23” x 38.5”. 28.5” x 44”. Condition: Good overall. PROVENANCE: IN PRIVATE COLLECTION BY INHERITANCE.

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