# Camille Corot artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1796-07-17
- Death date: 1875-02-22
- Nationality: French
- Movements: French classical landscape tradition, Romantic landscape painting, Nineteenth-century landscape naturalism based on studies from nature
- Common media: Painting, Etching, Sketches and studies from nature

## Portrait

![Camille Corot](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Jean-Baptiste_Camille_Corot_-_autoportrait.jpg/1280px-Jean-Baptiste_Camille_Corot_-_autoportrait.jpg)
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Baptiste_Camille_Corot_-_autoportrait.jpg

## About Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796–1875), usually known as Camille Corot, was a French painter and etcher whose career centered on landscape while also encompassing portraits and figure studies. Through his teachers Achille-Etna Michallon and Jean-Victor Bertin, he inherited the French classical landscape tradition, but he developed a direct response to nature through outdoor studies and extensive travel. Three Italian journeys, work across France, and visits to Switzerland, the Low Countries, and England supplied a broad landscape repertoire. Corot exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon from 1827 and was established as a major artist by mid-century. Collectors encounter both clear, topographical views and softer, atmospheric compositions evoking an Arcadian past. His later output gave greater weight to portraits, figure studies, and female nudes. This balance of classical structure, Romantic mood, and close observation of nature helps explain Corot’s importance in nineteenth-century French art and the continued appearance of his paintings, sketches, and etchings in collections and at auction.

## Common works and media

Works encountered in appraisal and auction contexts include landscape paintings, topographical views, atmospheric Arcadian compositions, portraits, figure studies, sketches from nature, and etchings. Corot’s landscapes may reflect travel in France, Italy, Switzerland, the Low Countries, or England. His figure work became increasingly important from the 1850s and includes portraits of friends and relatives as well as studies of women and female nudes. Because these work types differ substantially in medium, purpose, finish, and attribution requirements, comparisons should remain within the closest available category.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by identifying the object type and determining how securely it is attributed to Corot. Medium, dimensions, date or career phase, subject, condition, restoration, signature, and inscriptions affect which comparable sales are relevant. Provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references can also be important for paintings and works on paper bearing his name. For prints, any known edition details should be recorded. Appraisily’s public auction index provides comparable records, sale dates, and realized prices, but it is not a complete market census. Private sales, incomplete feeds, differing reporting conventions, and changes in attribution can limit direct comparisons. A specific valuation therefore requires object-level examination rather than reliance on an artist-wide average or price range.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/corot-jean-baptiste-camille-17961875
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q148475
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/027286517
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/1253
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115390
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/4940255/
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/camille-corot/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Baptiste_Camille_Corot_-_autoportrait.jpg