Corot

[ kaw-roh, kuh-; French kaw-roh ]

noun

1. Jean Bap·tiste Ca·mille [zhah, n, b, a, -, teest, k, a, -, mee, -y, uh], 1796–1875, French painter.

Corot

/ kɔro /

noun

1. CorotJean Baptiste Camille17961875MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Jean Baptiste Camille (ʒɑ̃ batist kamij). 1796–1875, French landscape and portrait painter

Example Sentences

Their methods were quickly adopted by such painters as Constable and Corot and, much later, Monet and Van Gogh.

From Washington Post

Miriam Stewart, curator of the collection in the division of European and American art, said works range from fakes of Daumier and Corot, to Matisse and George Inness.

From New York Times

Müller and Schubert’s mill — like Corot’s — is machinery, both material and ideological, that will be cast out by the forward march of industrialization.

From New York Times

But the heirs have focused in recent years on reclaiming dozens of artworks, including three El Grecos, a Courbet and a Corot, that are now in three Hungarian museums and a university in Budapest.

From New York Times

Arriving at a cool Corot nude in a darkling landscape or a crisp Picasso nude combing her hair was like gulping fresh air in a miasma.

From The New Yorker