Corot

[ kaw-roh, kuh-; French kaw-roh ]

noun

1. Jean Bap·tiste Ca·mille [zhah, n, b, a, -, teest, k, a, -, mee, -y, uh], 1796–1875, French painter.

Corot

/ kɔro /

noun

1. CorotJean Baptiste Camille17961875MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Jean Baptiste Camille (ʒɑ̃ batist kamij). 1796–1875, French landscape and portrait painter

Example Sentences

Rubens, Giorgione, Klee and Corot have painted it; Jean Cocteau has turned it into film.

From The Daily Beast

A great-granddaughter of Fragonard, she seems to have inherited his talent; Corot and Renoir forcibly appealed to her.

From Project Gutenberg

“Put in as much as you like at first, and afterwards efface the superfluity,” is a bit of advice that comes from Corot himself.

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To come upon a Corot in a gallery is like stepping out of the noisy glare of the market-place into the cool stillness of a church.

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For whatever may happen, it is impossible to believe that the work of Corot will ever become old-fashioned.

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The first visit to Italy, undertaken in 1825, marks an epoch in the life of Corot, as in that of many another painter.

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