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Camille Corot
(1796 - 1875) abandoned his commercial career at the age of
26 and began to study under the academic landscape painter Victor
Bertin. He traveled to Italy, the Netherlands and England. His
gift for landscape was immediately apparent, and by 1845 he
was acclaimed and selling his work regularly.
Today, Corot is most appreciated for very different kinds of
landscape: for plein air sketches and for lyrical views of the
countryside he called souvenirs. The soft, silvery souvenirs
recapture a poetic response to nature. Their fresh touch and
light atmosphere are informed by outdoor studies and combined
with a strong sense of form retained from classical French landscapes
of the seventeenth century. Corot's work was an important influence
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