Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Biografía

**Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot,** or simply **Camille Corot**, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the [Neo-Classical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassicism "Neoclassicism") tradition and anticipated the [plein-air](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_plein_air "En plein air") innovations of [Impressionism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism "Impressionism").