Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
(French, 1796-1875)


The Artist at His Easel (1825).
Oil on paper on canvas.
Musée du Louvre.

Corot had the wit to absorb only what suited his own vision.

He set up his easel on the quays of Paris, sketched from nature in Normandy, in the forest of Fontainebleau, and at Ville-d'Avray. His early development was rapid and sure.

The studies from 1822-1825 already contain, in their modest directness and lucidity, the essence of his personal style.