The famous and well-known landscaper named Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot He was born in Paris on July 26, 1796.
This man, during his childhood received a bourgeois education, and his secondary studies were attended in Rouen, between 1807 and 1812.
There Corot I lived with a friend named Sennegon, reader Rousseau and close to the illustrated ideas, of those who acquired a taste for nature.
Corot He continued his training in Poissy and from then on, began to express his desire to be a painter, but faced with the opposition of his father, he could not do it at that time and became an apprentice in the family business.
Her passion for painting continued to persevere, to the point that Camille spent almost her entire working day drawing, a matter that made her parents end up accepting her vocation and they decided to finance her career.
After a while, Corot entered the study of Achille-Etna Michallon, a renowned landscaper, from whom he learned to observe accurately and to be authentic when reproducing nature. He did not stay here long as the teacher’s early death came, which led him in 1822 to the study of Jean-Victor Bertin.
This other landscaper has trained him in the classical compositional principles that characterize the calm, well-structured landscapes he painted in Italy between 1825 and 1828.
This is clearly shown “Forum”, in 1826 and the “Bridge of Narni”, the next year.
Here the style of Corot, clearly showing a freshness of execution and fidelity to the motif contemplated and sketched outdoors
Later, Camille he made his first trip to Italy, and it is there that he discovered the effects of the strong southern light on Rome and its countryside. Such is what his discovery of light in that beautiful city brings, that like many other artists he decided to paint the remains of monuments from Roman Antiquity, so many times previously represented by artists from all over Europe.
The difference with his predecessors was that he painted them as he saw them, as volumes that varied as light fell on them.
This is how he acquired a great talent, always preferring to paint the hours of dawn and dusk, when the light fades to go out into the field.
In 1827 he decided to send his work to the Paris Salon “The Narni Bridge” and since then he exhibited every year.
Because of these exposures, Corot he became a recipient of second-class medals in 1833 and 1849, and was also elected to the jury in 1848, 1849, 1864, and 1870.
In 1844 an important order came into his hands, which consisted of the order of a Baptism of Christ in order to Saint Nicholas of Chardonnet, in Paris.
Despite its importance, this work went unnoticed.
In the course of time, Corot continued to deepen in the consolidation of his style, which was greatly influenced by his friendship with Constant Dutilleux, a painter, engraver and editor from Arras who introduced him to the field of engraving and taught him the technique of cliché-verre.
Finally, success came to Corot with the Universal Exhibition of 1855, where added to the receipt of a medal, he obtained the honor that Napoleon III acquired one of the six paintings exhibited for his private collection.
This artist had at that time a style formed fundamentally by his freshness, which for some unaware of art, turned his works into sketches of little importance.
He was the one who, with his sense, so criticized and judged, introduced in France the aesthetics of the fragmentary, defined in landscape painting by the English romantics as Constable.
And went Constable Y Corot the precursors who presented figures or objects interrupted by the border of the painting.