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'''Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot''' (1796 – 1875) was a [[French]] [[painter]]. He is considered the first great French [[landscape]] painter. Corot was member of the Barbizon School of France.
Corot follow the advise of his teacher Achille-Etna Michallon ''"to reproduce as scrupulously as possible what I saw in front of me"''.
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Through he represented nature realistically, he did not idealize the peasant or the labors of agriculture in the manner of [[Jean-François Millet|Millet]] and [[Gustave Courbet]], and was uninvolved in ideological controversy. [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/corot/]
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== See also ==
*[[French painting]]
*[[Gallery of French Masterpieces]]
*[[Famous French paintings]]
== External links ==
*[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/corot_jean-baptiste-camille.html Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot]
*[http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/corot/ Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille]
[[Category:French Painters]]
Corot follow the advise of his teacher Achille-Etna Michallon ''"to reproduce as scrupulously as possible what I saw in front of me"''.
<blockquote>
Through he represented nature realistically, he did not idealize the peasant or the labors of agriculture in the manner of [[Jean-François Millet|Millet]] and [[Gustave Courbet]], and was uninvolved in ideological controversy. [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/corot/]
</blockquote>
== See also ==
*[[French painting]]
*[[Gallery of French Masterpieces]]
*[[Famous French paintings]]
== External links ==
*[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/corot_jean-baptiste-camille.html Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot]
*[http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/corot/ Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille]
[[Category:French Painters]]