Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot Paintings

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875), was born in Paris. His early training, from 1822 onwards, was with the classicizing landscape painters Michallon and Bertin, and in 1825 he went to Italy, via Switzerland, for two years. Corot spent most of his time in and around Rome, where he developed, through painting on the spot, his sensitive treatment of light, form and distance in terms of tonal values rather than by color and drawing. Corot traveled widely in France 1827-1834, and returned to Italy for several months in 1834 and 1843, his journeys being recorded in his drawings for his pochades, which are small and very freely handled, and remarkable for the justness of their tonal values and the freshness of their color.

By the early 1850s the tide of official and public favor had turned, possibly because by then Corot had developed for his Salon exhibits a fuzzy, woolly, poeticizing manner entirely different from the directness and keenness of observation found in his sketches. The muzzy treatment of the landscape and trees in soft, grey-green tones became immensely popular, and has assured him the most notoriously prolific of all posthumous productions.

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