Camille Corot

Corot paints soft, silvery landscapes with feathery trees and a gentle, misty hush. Look for muted silvery-green tones, delicate atmosphere, and a poetic calm bridging classical landscape and Impressionism.

Camille Corot (1796–1875) was a painter from France, associated with Realism.

A mid-19th-century turn to everyday life and ordinary working people, painted honestly and without idealization. Realism →

More Realism painters: Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet, Ilya Repin, John Singer Sargent.

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