Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875), a pivotal figure in 19th-century French landscape painting, was born on July 16, 1796, in Paris. Raised in a well-to-do bourgeois household—his father, Jacques ...

JEAN-BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT rode to fame in 19th century France on his ability to produce a vision of dappled Elysian fields populated by maids dancing under ever blue skies. But 20th century taste ...

French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot -- who earned a hallowed place in art history by infusing 19th century landscape painting with a fresh breath of realism -- credited his teacher, Achille Etna ...

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, “Bacchante with a Panther” (1860, reworked c. 1865-70), oil on canvas, 21¾ x 37½ inches (all images courtesy National Gallery of Art) WASHINGTON, D.C. — To the savvy, ...

Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree’s entire collection of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, which includes 11 paintings, 12 lithographs and a drawing, go on display Jan. 11-March 23 in the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum ...

The same day that Hitler marched into what remained of France, Manhattan art lovers marched into the Wildenstein Galleries to see the biggest exhibition of France’s famed Painter Camille Corot ever ...

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot painted thousands of landscapes — he did them well, and he did well by them. By the 1850s he was regarded as "a seriously successful, nationally renowned landscape painter, ...

Corot’s “The Repose” was painted in 1860 and reworked later in the decade. The nude model looks out at the viewer with a composed and level gaze, but it’s not a gaze that’s easy to interpret.

Bonhams is pleased to announce the results of its May 8 European Paintings auction, which brought in more than $2.2 million. The leading offering of the 173-lot auction was Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ...

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot painted thousands of landscapes. But in the last two decades of his life, he turned his attention to painting women... At The End Of His Career, This 19th Century Artist ...