"Pond at Mortain-Manche," oil on canvas, by the French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. 15 1/16 in. x 18 1/4 in. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Helen G. Altschul, widow of Frank Altschul, B.A. 1908. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.
