Corot, (Jean Baptiste) Camille 1796-1875
French landscape painter

Born in Paris, he became an assistant in a Paris drapery establishment, but in 1822 took up the study of art. He moved to Rome in 1825, but returned to Paris in 1872, and contributed his Vue prise � Narni and his Campagne de Rome to the Salon. His main sketching ground was at Barbizon, in the Forest of Fontainebleau, but he made two other visits to Italy in 1835 and 1843. It was not until about 1840 that he fully developed his style, characterized by breadth and delicacy, and sacrificing accuracy of detail to unity of impression and harmony of effect. The Universal Exhibition of 1855 established his fame. Among his masterpieces are Danse de nymphes, Hom�re et les bergers, Orph�e, Joueur de fl�te and Le B�cheron.

Bibliography: Ared Robaut, L'?uvre de Corot (4 vols, 1905)