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'''Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot''' (1796 – 1875) was a [[French]] [[Realism|Realist]] [[painter]]. He is considered the first great French [[landscape]] painter. Corot was member of the Barbizon School of France.
'''Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot''' (1796 – 1875) was a [[French]] [[Realism|Realist]] [[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"''.
Corot followed the advise of his teacher Achille-Etna Michallon ''"to reproduce as scrupulously as possible what I saw in front of me"''. His landscapes anticipated those of the [[Impressionism|Impressionists]] and the ''plein-air'' technique.
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