Camille Corot: 175 Paintings, Drawings and Etchings

Claude Monet once called of Corot: "e;There is only one master here and his name is Corot. We are nothing weigh against to him - nothing."e;Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was the leading French painter of the Barbizon school. Corot often praised as a predecessor of Impressionism, but he painted [...]
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Claude Monet once called of Corot: "e;There is only one master here and his name is Corot. We are nothing weigh against to him - nothing."e;Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was the leading French painter of the Barbizon school. Corot often praised as a predecessor of Impressionism, but he painted his landscapes in more traditional way than is generally supposed. Unlike the Impressionists, Corot painted only sketches in the open air; he composed his finished paintings in the studio. Compared to the Impressionists who came later, Corot's palette is restrained, dominated with browns and blacks ("e;forbidden colors"e; among the Impressionists) along with dark and silvery green. Though appearing at times to be rapid and spontaneous, usually his strokes were controlled and careful, and his compositions well-thought out and generally rendered as simply and concisely as possible, heightening the poetic effect of the imagery.