Artist

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

Works (7)

Bathing Nymphs and Child

1855–60

Wounded Eurydice

1868–70

View of Genoa

1834

Souvenir of the Environs of Lake Nemi

1865

Landscape

1865/70

Monte Pincio, Rome

1840–50

Arleux-Palluel, The Bridge of Trysts

1871–72

1796

JulJean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was born in Paris on July 16, 1796.¹

1822

Corot gained the financial freedom to devote himself to painting at the age of 26, beginning his career as an artist.²

1871

Corot traveled in northeastern France in 1871 during the Paris Commune, under the French Third Republic.²

1875

FebJean-Baptiste-Camille Corot died in Paris on February 22, 1875, at the age of 78.¹