Camille CorotFrance, 1796–1875La Clairière
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Inconnu
Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret
Nice, France
Le propriétaire est connu ; on ignore si l’œuvre est exposée aujourd’hui.
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- RF 1795
Pendant ce temps, chez Camille Corot
La vie entière1865–1875
“Père Corot” of Parisian artists
In his final ten years Corot became the “Père (Father) Corot” of Parisian artistic circles, regarded with personal affection and acknowledged as one of the five or six greatest landscape painters the world had seen, along with Hobbema, Claude Lorrain, Turner and Constable.
29 juin 1867 · Distinction
Officer of the Legion of Honour
1871
The siege of Paris: a donation; the Commune, in Arras
In 1871, during the Franco-Prussian War, Corot gave 2,000 francs for the poor of Paris, then under siege by the Prussians. During the Paris Commune he was at Arras with Alfred Robaut.
1872
A house in Auvers for the blind Daumier
In 1872 Corot bought a house in Auvers as a gift for Honoré Daumier, who by then was blind, without resources and homeless.
1872 · Distinction
Knight of the Order of Leopold
1874
Friends present Corot with a gold medal
Despite his great success among artists and collectors, his many friends felt that he had been officially neglected, and in 1874, a short time before his death, they presented him with a gold medal.
