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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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But Wynne figured he’d heard the last of Doyle after attending his 2011 sentencing for stealing that Corot.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 11, 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

Their ways caught on quickly, though, so that, by the 1820s, landscape artists whose names we do know — Camille Corot, Richard Parkes Bonington, John Constable — were working the same way.

From Washington Post Feb. 24, 2020

Westmore, leaning over to address Barres, said with an amused air: “You know, Garry, it’s Corot Mandel who is putting on this thing for the Gerhardts.”

From The Moonlit Way by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

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