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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

1796 - 1875

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (UK: KORR-oh, US: kə-ROH, kor-OH, French: [ʒɑ̃ batist kamij kɔʁo]; 16 July 1796 – 22 February 1875), 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 tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot is the 81st most popular painter (down from 70th in 2019), the 237th most popular biography from France (down from 191st in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Painter.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was a French painter who is most famous for his landscapes.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ranks 81 out of 2,023. Before him are Rogier van der Weyden, Alfred Sisley, Gustave Doré, Bob Ross, Jackson Pollock, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. After him are Georges Seurat, Berthe Morisot, Canaletto, Bronzino, Max Ernst, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ranks 2. Before him is Nicholas I of Russia. After him are Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Adolphe Quetelet, Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Michael Thonet, Franz Berwald, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Asher Brown Durand, Jakob Steiner, and Walter Hunt. Among people deceased in 1875, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ranks 5. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen, Georges Bizet, Ferdinand I of Austria, and Jean-François Millet. After him are Éliphas Lévi, Andrew Johnson, John Edward Gray, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Charles Lyell, Isaac Singer, and Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ranks 237 out of 6,770. Before him are Joseph Bonaparte (1768), Gabriel Fauré (1845), Christian Dior (1905), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Gilles Deleuze (1925), and Richard II of England (1367). After him are Frédéric Mistral (1830), Louis X of France (1289), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Georges Seurat (1859), Bernard Arnault (1949), and Léon Foucault (1819).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot ranks 21. Before him are Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), Jean-François Millet (1814), Théodore Géricault (1791), Henri Rousseau (1844), Alfred Sisley (1839), and Gustave Doré (1832). After him are Georges Seurat (1859), Berthe Morisot (1841), François Boucher (1703), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), and Honoré Daumier (1808).

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