Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 1796-1875 | French realist/impressionist painter

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 1796-1875 | French realist/impressionist painter
Corot was a french realist impressionist painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting: His work simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism. Of him Claude Monet exclaimed "There is only one master here - Corot. We are nothing compared to him, nothing". His contributions to figure painting are hardly less important; Degas preferred his figures to his landscapes, and the classical figures of Picasso pay overt homage to Corot's influence.