Olga's Gallery
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
(1796-1875)
Biography
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was born on July 16, 1796 into the family of a draper. His mother was a fashionable milliner of the First Empire and Restoration periods. At the age of 19, Corot started attending evening classes at the atelier Suisse run by one of David's former pupils. He also had a studio built in the country house of his father at Ville-d' Avray, near Versailles. Read Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's Full Biography
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Ville-d'Array: Entrance to the Wood with a Girl Tending Cows. 1823-25. Oil on canvas. 46 x 35 cm. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK. 
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The Colosseum Seen through the Arcades of the Basilica of Constantine. 1825. Oil on canvas. 23 x 35 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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The Colosseum: View from the Farnese Gardens. 1826. Oil on paper mounted on canvas. 30 x 49 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Rome: The Forum Seen from the Farnese Gardens. 1826. Oil on paper mounted on canvas. 28 x 50 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Rome: The Church of Trinità dei Monti Seen from the Valley of Trinità dei Monti. 1826-28. Oil on paper mounted on canvas. 27.3 x 44.7 cm. Musée d'Art and d'Historie, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Rome: The Church of Trinità dei Monti Seen from the French Academy. 1826-28. Oil on canvas. 45 x 74 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Seated Italian Monk, Reading, Rome. 1826-28. Oil on canvas. 40 x 27 cm. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA.
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The Lake of Piediluco, Umbria. 1826. Oil on canvas. 22 x 41 cm. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK.
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Poussin's Walk, The Roman Campagna. 1826-28. Oil on canvas. 33 x 51 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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The Bridge at Narni. 1826. A study. Oil on paper mounted on canvas 34 x 48 cm. A study done in 1826 for a painting exhibited in the Salon of 1827 (which is now in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa). Louvre, Paris, France.
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Rocks in Amalfi. 1828. Oil on canvas. Till 1929 belonged to Baron von der Heydt, Berlin (?) Now in The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
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Chartres Cathedral. 1830 (retouched 1872). Oil on canvas, 64 x 51.5 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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View of Riva in the Italian Tyrol. 1834. Oil on canvas. 96 x 140 cm. Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
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Self-Portrait with Palette in Hand. c.1834. Oil on canvas. 33 x 25 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
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The Cabassud Houses at Ville-d'Avray / Les maisons Cabassud a Ville-d'Avray. 1835-1840. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
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