Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) was one of the most celebrated landscape painters of all time, and also famous as an etcher. Corot art is loosely associated with the Barbizon School (a group which included Theodore Rousseau, Constant Troyon, Charles-Francois Daubigny and Jean-Francois Millet). Jean Baptiste Corot was said to have had a genuinely likable personality, even after achieving financial success -- with Corot paintings for sale for considerable sums of money, even in his own lifetime. In Parisian art circles he was known as "Father Corot" and served as mentor to many other artists, and was generous to them in times of need.
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