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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The National Gallery, London has purchased The Four Times of Day (1858) by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition was financed by a contribution from the Art Fund, a ...

When at the age of 50 Jean Baptiste Camille Corot won the cross of the Legion of Honor, his father took one look at his elderly son’s shabby attire and said to his wife: “I think we ought to give ...

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot has been featured in articles for Daily Art Magazine, ArtDaily and Lenscratch. The most recent article is Mirror Straits: Where Singaporean and Taiwanese Art Meet written ...