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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot Art Prints

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)

6 museum-quality prints of works by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, each made to order on archival paper and shipped to your wall.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875) came to painting late, at 25, after abandoning his father’s drapery trade. His stay in Italy from 1825 to 1828, during which he made some 150 oil studies of Rome and the Campagna, established the practice that shaped his entire career: small, tonally exact sketches made outdoors, reworked in winter into finished Salon pictures. He returned to Italy in 1834 — the year of View of Genoa — and his views of the Monte Pincio distill this method of measured light and architecture.

In the 1860s Corot developed the Souvenir, a composed landscape of feathery trees and silvery tonality evoked from memory rather than transcribed, as in Souvenir of the Environs of Lake Nemi (1865). His figure paintings, such as Interrupted Reading (c. 1870), he almost never exhibited, keeping them as private studio work. Monet declared in 1897, “There is only one master here — Corot.”