Timeless Arcadia

"There is only one master here - Corot. We are nothing
compared to him, nothing." Claude Monet, 1897

"He is still the strongest, he anticipated everything..."
Edgar Degas, 1883

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (July 17, 1796 - February 22, 1875) 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.