Corot

ko-ro', Jean Baptiste Camille, (Paris 1796-1875), a French landscape painter. He has high rank as a painter of landscapes, for which he made extraordinary preparation by a diligent study of nature. His paintings are marked for their sobriety of coloring. It is said that he was the first artist to reveal the possibility of brown and gray. With these colors, aided by pale green, he painted a large number of scenes with exquisite dawn and twilight effects, including, Morning, Evening, Sunset, Rest, Solitude, Landscape with Figures, Pleasures of Evening, etc. The Boston Art Museum, the New York Metropolitan Museum, and other American galleries possess specimens of Corot's work.

See Millais; Breton