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Rome, the Basilica of Constantine (c.1826) by Camille Corot. Oil on canvas. Private collection. Source WikiArt

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was one of the great French artists of the 19th century. Celebrated in his own time as a painter of large, nostalgic landscape works, it was his smaller outdoor studies that would command the attention of later…