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.
1823-25. Oil on canvas. 46 x 35 cm. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.
1825. Oil on canvas. 23 x 35 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
1826. Oil on paper mounted on canvas. 30 x 49 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
1826. Oil on paper mounted on canvas. 28 x 50 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
1826-28. Oil on paper mounted on canvas. 27.3 x 44.7 cm. Musée d'Art and d'Historie, Geneva, Switzerland.
1826-28. Oil on canvas. 45 x 74 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
1826-28. Oil on canvas. 40 x 27 cm. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA.
1826. Oil on canvas. 22 x 41 cm. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK.
1826-28. Oil on canvas. 33 x 51 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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.
1828. Oil on canvas. Till 1929 belonged to Baron von der Heydt, Berlin (?) Now in The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1830 (retouched 1872). Oil on canvas, 64 x 51.5 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
1834. Oil on canvas. 96 x 140 cm. Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
c.1834. Oil on canvas. 33 x 25 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
1835-1840. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
1839. Oil on canvas. 62.5 x 102 cm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA, USA.
1843. 34 x 55 cm. Private collection.
1844-45. Oil on canvas. 385 x205 cm. Church of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, Paris, France. Read Note.
1850-60. Oil on canvas. 91 x 60.5 cm. Private collection. Read Note.
Salon of 1850-51. 98 x 131 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France, Deposit from the Louvre. Read Note.
Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1999.
Camille Corot. By V. Alpatov. Moscow. 1984.
Corot in Italy: Open-Air Painting and the Classical Landscape Tradition by Peter Galassi, Jean-Baptiste-C Corot. Yale Univ Pr, 1991.
In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting by Philip Conisbee, Sarah Faunce (Contributor), Jeremy Strick (Contributor), National Gallery of ArtU.S., Brooklyn Museum, Peter Galassi. Natl Gallery of Art, 1996.