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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was born in Paris on 16 July 1796 in a house at 125 Rue du Bac, now demolished.His family were bourgeois people—his father was a wig maker and his mother, Marie-Françoise Corot, a milliner—and unlike the experience of some of his artistic colleagues, throughout his life he never felt the want of money, as his parents made good investments and ran their ...
Pages in category "Paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The painting was one of the several that Corot did of the same subject during a stay in Rome in his youth. It depicts a view of Rome, largely occupied by the Tiber River, in the foreground, while the Castel Sant'Angelo is seen at the center left. It also shows a bridge that crosses the river and several buildings on the right.
View of Venice: The Piazzetta Seen from the Riva degli Schiavoni is an oil-on-canvas painting of Venice executed c. 1835–1845 by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The painting is at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, but as at 2019 not on display. [1]
The painting is on display at the Musée du Louvre in Paris. It was painted in September 1826 and was the basis for the larger and more finished View at Narni , which was exhibited at the Salon of 1827 and is in the National Gallery of Canada , Ottawa .
Souvenir de Mortefontaine (English:Recollection of Mortefontaine) is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, created in 1864. It is a scene of tranquillity: a woman and children quietly enjoying themselves by a glass-flat, tree-flanked lake. It is held in the Louvre, in Paris.
The painting depicts the calm surface of a lake and buildings on the far shore, the figures of peasants, merged with the landscape and engaged in their usual familiar and ordinary activities. The foreground is given to one of the artist favorite motifs: trees. Most likely, these are willows, which Corot painted quite often.
The Harbor of La Rochelle is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, created in 1851. It is held at the Yale University Art Gallery, in New Haven. [1] It depicts the harbor of La Rochelle on the Bay of Biscay. Although Corot was producing his renowned grey landscapes by 1851, this painting recalls his earlier ...