Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 - 1875)

He was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A important figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism. His early oil sketches, painted outdoors and characterized by their bright colors, fluid brushstrokes, and prioritization of the expression of mood and atmosphere over topographical details, greatly influenced the Impressionists.