The Harbor of La Rochelle
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.
"The Harbor of La Rochelle," oil on canvas, by the French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. 19 7/8 in. x 28 1/4 in. Yale University Art Gallery, bequest of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Painting ID:: 72953
The Harbor of La Rochelle
1796-1875
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French painter, draughtsman and printmaker.
After a classical education at the College de Rouen, where he did not distinguish himself, and an unsuccessful apprenticeship with two drapers, Corot was allowed to devote himself to painting at the age of 26. He was given some money that had been intended for his sister, who had died in 1821, and this, together with what we must assume was his family continued generosity, freed him from financial worries and from having to sell his paintings to earn a living. Corot chose to follow a modified academic course of training. He did not enrol in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts but studied instead with Achille Etna Michallon and, after Michallon death in 1822, with Jean-Victor Bertin. Both had been pupils of Pierre-Henri Valenciennes, and, although in later years Corot denied that he had learnt anything of value from his teachers, his career as a whole shows his attachment to the principles of historic landscape painting which they professed. English: "The Harbor of La Rochelle," oil on canvas, by the French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. 19 7/8 in. x 28 1/4 in. Yale University Art Gallery, bequest of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date 1851
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Painting ID:: 74768
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot 1796-1875
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French painter, draughtsman and printmaker.
After a classical education at the College de Rouen, where he did not distinguish himself, and an unsuccessful apprenticeship with two drapers, Corot was allowed to devote himself to painting at the age of 26. He was given some money that had been intended for his sister, who had died in 1821, and this, together with what we must assume was his family continued generosity, freed him from financial worries and from having to sell his paintings to earn a living. Corot chose to follow a modified academic course of training. He did not enrol in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts but studied instead with Achille Etna Michallon and, after Michallon death in 1822, with Jean-Victor Bertin. Both had been pupils of Pierre-Henri Valenciennes, and, although in later years Corot denied that he had learnt anything of value from his teachers, his career as a whole shows his attachment to the principles of historic landscape painting which they professed. The Harbor of La Rochelle English: "The Harbor of La Rochelle," oil on canvas, by the French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. 19 7/8 in. x 28 1/4 in. Yale University Art Gallery, bequest of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date 1851
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