Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: French Landscape Painter Introduction: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, one of the most admired French landscape painters and engravers, was born on July 17, 1796, to a wealthy bourgeois family on Rue du Bac in Paris. His father was a wig maker, and his mother, a milliner. In contrast to most artists who show early signs of art, Corot,... View more