Paysage, soleil couchant

1862–1863

Painting outdoors at Bussac-sur-Charente with Courbet

In 1862 and 1863 Corot and his friend Gustave Courbet went to paint outdoors at Bussac-sur-Charente, working with Hippolyte Pradelle and Louis-Augustin Auguin and forming the short-lived “Port-Berteau group”.

1865–1875

“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