deaths
February 22, 1875
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter and illustrator (born 1796)
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
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 tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.