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The Drexel Collection has selected Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot’s The Shepherd as November’s object of the month. Corot was trained in the French classical tradition of landscape painting founded by Nicholas Poussin. His goal as an artist was to raise the level of landscape painting to that of high art in the eyes of the critics and he was a forerunner of the Barbizon School, although not officially a part of it. He was considered to be the greatest landscape painter of his time, with an extremely long career spanning several different styles. He often included figures in his landscapes in an effort to draw the viewer into the painting, highlighting them with bright spots of color in the clothing, such as the red kerchief on the shepherd.Label Type
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As an artist, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot’s goal was to raise the level of landscape painting to that of high art in the eyes of the Salons. He was a forerunner of the Barbizon School, although not officially part of it. He was considered the greatest landscape painter of his time, with an extremely long career spanning several different styles, from large history paintings to Romanticism to the beginnings of Impressionism.