active in Provence 1444-1466 Related Paintings of Enguerrand Quarton :. | Our Lady of condolences to Jesus | Pieta | Pieta (mk08) | Cornation of the Virgin (mk08) | Coronation of the Virgin | Related Artists:
Auguste Frederic DufauxFrench impression artist
1852-1943
Constance MayerMarie-Françoise-Constance Mayer-Lamartiniere
French Neoclassical Painter, 1775-1821
Corot CamilleFrench Realist Painter ,
1796-1875
French painter, draughtsman and printmaker. After a classical education at the Coll?ge de Rouen, where he did not distinguish himself, and an unsuccessful apprenticeship with two drapers, Corot was allowed to devote himself to painting at the age of 26. He was given some money that had been intended for his sister, who had died in 1821, and this, together with what we must assume was his family's continued generosity, freed him from financial worries and from having to sell his paintings to earn a living. Corot chose to follow a modified academic course of training. He did not enrol in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts but studied instead with Achille Etna Michallon and, after Michallon's death in 1822, with Jean-Victor Bertin. Both had been pupils of Pierre-Henri Valenciennes, and, although in later years Corot denied that he had learnt anything of value from his teachers