Corot Jean-Baptiste-Camille (Corot) (1796 – 1875) – one of the greatest French landscape painters of modern times. Worked first sketches from life under the guidance of Mishalona, and then learning from Bertin, lost a lot of time in the pursuit of academic direction of the artist, until set in 1826, to Italy and started up here again for the direct study of nature.
By doing sketches in the neighborhood of Rome, he quickly mastered the understanding of, mainly, general landscape, although carefully pondered, and in its parts and diligently copied the rocks, stones, trees, bushes, moss, etc. However, in his first Italian works more noticeable tendency to rhythmic arrangement of parts and forms of style. Subsequently, he worked in the Provence, Normandy, Limousin, Dauphin, near Paris and Fontainebleau, to do with his view on the nature and performance became free and independent.
In the pictures, written on his return from Italy, he was not chasing the exact reproduction of the area, but tries to convey only an impression of her, using her forms and tones, only to express their support for his poetic mood. The same purpose is also contributed to the figures, which he puts in his landscapes are composed of an idyllic, Bible, and fantastic scenes. Although it was criticized for excessive sentimentality, but from many of his works breathe well and genuinely bright, cheerful feeling. This was mainly a painter quietly sleeping waters, broad, pale horizons, the drawn mist of heaven dormant forests and groves – this Theocritus landscape painting. In it, he studied engraving of a needle and strong vodka.
The best of his paintings: "Type Riva" (1835, in Marseilles. Museum), "Italian Morning" (1842; in Avignon Museum), "Memory of the lake. Nemi" (1865), "Idyll", "Sunrise in Ville- d'Avray "(1868, in Rouen Museum)," Nymphs and Satyrs dancing greet the sunrise "(1851, in the Louvre Gallery in Paris)," Morning "and" Type in the vicinity of Albano "(ibid.). In Kushelevskoy gal. Imp. Aqd. Hood. in St. Petersburg. – Sample of two paintings by Corot: "Morning" and "Evening".