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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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Corot, 40, instead joined the Proper’s club as a founding member, paying $5,000 for the first year, plus the $2,500 initiation fee and taxes.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From BBC

Their methods were quickly adopted by such painters as Constable and Corot and, much later, Monet and Van Gogh.

From Washington Post

Miriam Stewart, curator of the collection in the division of European and American art, said works range from fakes of Daumier and Corot, to Matisse and George Inness.

From New York Times

Müller and Schubert’s mill — like Corot’s — is machinery, both material and ideological, that will be cast out by the forward march of industrialization.

From New York Times