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Camille Corot

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Camille Corot, born Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching, who lived from 1796 to 1875. He was a pivotal figure in landscape painting whose vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Camille Corot was a leading and founding figure of the Barbizon Schools naturalistic landscape painting.

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    A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.
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    He was a pivotal figure in landscape painting whose vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.
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