
Arleux-Palluel, The Bridge of Trysts
1871 · Oil on canvas
60.8 × 73 cm (23 1/2 × 28 1/2 in.); Framed: 88.9 × 101.6 × 12.1 cm (35 × 40 × 4 3/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.
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