Corot, Camille

French painter

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Forest of Fontainebleau, oil on canvas by Camille Corot, 1834; in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 175.6 × 242.6 cm.

Camille Corot, in full Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, (born July 16, 1796, Paris, France—died February 22, 1875, Paris), French painter, noted primarily for his landscapes, who inspired and to some extent anticipated the landscape painting of the Impressionists. His oil sketches, remarkable for their technical freedom and clear colour, have come to be as highly regarded as the finished pictures that were based upon them.