Landscape

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.

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 · 获奖

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.

late 1874

Retires to Coubron

At the end of 1874 Corot retired to Coubron in the Île-de-France.