Edgar Dega

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) Jean Baptiste Camille Corot was born in Paris on July 16, 1796. His mother managed a fashionable dress shop in Paris on the Rue du Bac and as a result he spent his first four years with a family near I'sleAdam, and until 1807 lived in a pension on the Rue Vaugirard. He was sent afterwards on scholarship to a school in Rouen, but did not adapt well to his new environment, and …

…love and to paint nature for its own sake, and his landscapes were surprisingly sensitive. He possessed a true quality of vision and expressed a genuine poetic style in his work. Corot's paintings combined poetry, light and color to reveal a clear and intense truth. He enlightened the realm of landscape painting with a new naturalism, and a definite romanticism. Corot was a revolutionary artist and a precursor to the art of the next generation.