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Corot

American  
[kaw-roh, kuh-, kaw-roh] / kɔˈroʊ, kə-, kɔˈroʊ /

noun

  1. Jean Baptiste Camille 1796–1875, French painter.


Corot British  
/ kɔro /

noun

  1. Jean Baptiste Camille (ʒɑ̃ batist kamij). 1796–1875, French landscape and portrait painter

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The author promises discoveries as well as a fresh take on the familiar, including 19th-century paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny, a violet Caspar David Friedrich moonscape and plenty of Georgia O’Keeffe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

The most recent disappearance was of a landscape by the 19th Century artist Camille Corot.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025

But they reach their protean peak in a bucolic cliché-verre, 1855, by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

He continued to take notes on Corot, Velázquez, Courbet.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019

Yet in such a rectangle of gilded contortion a Corot or a Daubigny shows to perfection: place it in a frame of more reticent design, and it becomes in a moment flat, empty, and tame.

From Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter by Ernest Govett

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