Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

1796–1875 · Realism

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.

40 paintings

• View of Genoa (1834)
• Nymphs Leaving the Bath (1843)
• Monte Pincio, Rome (1840–50)
• Interrupted Reading (c. 1870)
• Woman Meditating (after 1868)
• The Pond at the Entrance of the Woods (c. 1860–75)
• La Cervara, the Roman Campagna (c. 1830–31)
• Willows and Farmhouse at Sainte-Catherine-lès-Arras (1871)
• Memory of Italy: Dancer (1850)
• Lady in Blue (1874)
• The Bridge at Narni (1826)
• The Gardens of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli (1843)
• Recollection of Mortefontaine (1864)
• The Oak in the Valley (1871)
• Ville d'Avray: Entrance to the Wood (1825)
• Corot's Studio: Woman Seated Before an Easel, a Mandolin in her Hand (c. 1868)
• The Forest of Coubron (1872)
• View near Epernon (1850/1860)
• The Repose (1860, reworked c. 1865/1870)
• Dance under the Trees at the Edge of the Lake (1865/1870)
• Landscape (c. 1870/1875)
• Souvenir of Terracina (1864, reworked slightly later)
• The Moored Boatman: Souvenir of an Italian Lake (1861)
• The Eel Gatherers (1860/1865)
• River View (1868/1872)
• Gypsy Woman with Mandolin (c. 1870)
• Italian Woman (La Morieri) (c. 1872)
• Ville-d'Avray (c. 1865)
• Saint Sebastian Succored by the Holy Women (1874)
• Italian Peasant Boy (1825/1827)
• Portrait of a Young Girl (1850 or 1859)
• Agostina (1866)
• Forest of Fontainebleau (1834)
• A View near Volterra (1838)
• Bridge on the Saône River at Mâcon (1834)
• Madame Stumpf and Her Daughter (1872)
• Woman Reading in the Studio (c. 1868)
• The Island and Bridge of San Bartolomeo, Rome (1825/1828)
• Stormy Weather, Pas de Calais (1870)
• Hay wagon (the wagon moves a ford next a large tree) (1860)