| View Larger Image | Corot (Drawing Gallery) | Paperbackby Arlette Sérullaz (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | 5Continents | | Page Count: | 96 Pages | | Publication Date: | October 01, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 1,157,082st |
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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796 - 1875) was the leading figure of the Barbizon school in France in the mid-nineteenth century and a pivotal figure in landscape painting. This book shows the Louvre's collection of drawings by Corot, the largest in the world, and also examines the principal artistic phases of this artist who considered drawing the very essence of art. |
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