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View of Genoa by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

View of Genoa

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot · 1834

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Artist
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Date
1834
Location
Art Institute of Chicago
ART MOVEMENTS
Barbizon schoolNaturalism
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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, a pivotal French landscape painter, masterfully bridged Neo-Classicism with the emerging plein-air innovations of Impressionism.

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Beyond Corot and Naturalism: works from the same years, and from the other movements View of Genoa belongs to.

The Estuary Farm Same movement · Barbizon school The Estuary Farm Léon-Victor Dupré · 1831 · Art Institute of Chicago The Golden Bough Same era · 1810s–1840s The Golden Bough J. M. W. Turner · 1834 · National Gallery Woman Feeding Chickens Same movement · Barbizon school Woman Feeding Chickens Jean-François Millet · 1850 · Art Institute of Chicago Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard Same era · 1810s–1840s Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard Eugène Delacroix · 1839 · Department of Paintings of the Louvre The Virgin Adoring the Host Same era · 1810s–1840s The Virgin Adoring the Host Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1841 · Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts The Fortune Teller (La Bonne Aventure) Same era · 1810s–1840s The Fortune Teller (La Bonne Aventure) Jacques-Louis David · 1824 · Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Saturn Devouring His Son Same era · 1810s–1840s Saturn Devouring His Son Francisco Goya · 1820 · Museo del Prado Two Men Contemplating the Moon Same era · 1810s–1840s Two Men Contemplating the Moon Caspar David Friedrich · 1819 · Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
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