COROT, Jean-Baptiste-Camille. - Painter, b. in Paris on 16 July 1796, d. there on 22 Feb. 1875. Encouraged by the painter A. E. Michallon, he studied (1796-1822) with Victor Bertin. In 1825 he left for Italy, where he remained for three years; he returned there in 1834 and, in Rome, in 1849.
From then on his art appeared to be in full development. He carried out his pictorial activity especially in the genre of landscape, but he also painted sacred subjects, showing himself still bound to classical forms: *Agar nel deserto* (1835), *S. Girolamo nella chiesa di Ville D'Avray* (1836), *La fuga in Egitto nella chiesa di Rosny* (1840), *Il Battesimo di Gesù nella chiesa di St-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet* in Paris (1840), *Il Monte degli Ulivi* in the museum of Langres (1849). These paintings, given their connection with academic precepts, are certainly not to be placed among the most significant works for the evolution of C.'s pictorial language; nonetheless, a sincere religious sentiment breathes through them, and their significance in the spiritual evolution of the great painter is noteworthy.