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Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
1796–1875 · French · Realism
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Camille Corot

The hinge between the old idealized landscape and the open air to come, painting silvery, feathery places that collectors adored and the Impressionists quietly stole from. He hauled his easel into the Forest of Fontainebleau and taught a generation (Pissarro among them) to trust what they actually saw.

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