Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
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Oct 1, 2026
Sue AndersonNARRATOR
This landscape of color, light and air with form almost obliterated, merely suggested, given only as a hint of the mysterious.
Sue AndersonNARRATOR
Men like Corot and Monet have told us again and again that in painting clearly delineated forms of mountains, valleys, trees and rivers kill the fine color sentiment of the picture.
Sue AndersonNARRATOR
The great struggle of the modern landscapist is to get on with the least possible form and to suggest everything by tones of color, shades of light, drifts of air.
Sue AndersonNARRATOR
Why? Because these are the most sensuous qualities in nature and in art.
RelNARRATOR
It has become a trite saying that French genius lacks the sense of nature; that the French tongue is colorless, and therefore wants the most striking feature of poetry.
RelNARRATOR
If we abandoned for one moment the domain of letters and took a comprehensive view of the field of art, we might be permitted to express astonishment at the passing of so summary a judgment on the genius of a nation which has, in the real sense of the term, produced two such painters of nature as Claude Lorrain and Corot.
RelNARRATOR
But even in the realm of letters it is easily seen that this mode of thinking is due largely to insufficient knowledge of the language's resources, and to a study of French literature which does not extend beyond the seventeenth century.
RelNARRATOR
Without going back to the Duke of Orleans and to Villon, one need only read a few of the poets of the sixteenth century to be struck by the prominence given to nature in their writings.
Jim NolanHOST
At times he painted with much power.
Jim NolanHOST
Daubigny seemed more like Corot in his charm of style and love of atmosphere and light than any of the others.
Jim NolanHOST
He was fond of the banks of the Seine and the Marne at twilight, with evening atmospheres and dark trees standing in silent ranks against the warm sky.
Jim NolanHOST
He was also fond of the grey day along the coast, and even the sea attracted him not a little.
Jim NolanHOST
he was a painter of high abilities and in treatment strongly individual even distinguished by his simplicity and directness the unity of the whole grasp of the mass entire was his technical aim and this he sought to get not so much by line as by color tones of varying hue This respect in it, he seemed a connecting link between Corot and the present-day Impressionists.
Jim NolanHOST
Michel, 1763-1842, Huet, 1804-1869, and Francis, 1814-1900, were all allied in point of view with this group of landscape painters, and among the late men who have carried out their beliefs are Kazan, Jan, Des Moines, Pointillin, and Palouse, seem a little more inclined to the realistic than the poetic view, though producing work of much virility and intelligence.
Jim NolanHOST
Contemporary and associated with the Fontainebleau painters were a number of men who won high distinctions as painters of animals.
Felix FrancisGUEST
And also Jonathan Green from the Richard Green Gallery.
Felix FrancisGUEST
I went to the Richard Green Gallery and there was a Corot, on the wall.
Felix FrancisGUEST
And Corot was perhaps the most faked artist of all time.
Felix FrancisGUEST
It is laughingly said that in his lifetime, he painted about 5,000 paintings and 10,000 of which were sold in the United States.
Felix FrancisGUEST
because there were so many other people painting works and signing his name at the bottom.
BrewHOST
But it wasn't enough.
BrewHOST
In 1998, the Louvre's security came into question again when an unknown thief walked into the museum, removed the pegs from behind the frame holding Camille Corot's painting Le Camin de Sévir, sliced the painting right out of the frame, and then simply walked out of the museum undetected, all while hundreds of visitors milled about in nearby galleries.
BrewHOST
That painting, valued at $1.3 million, has never been recovered.
BrewHOST
Pierre Rosenberg, the Louvre's director at the time, warned that the museum's security was fragile, The theft prompted some upgrades, but apparently not enough.
Matt MarkgrafNARRATOR
At any rate, there was the training-camp bathtub, and they used it at least once a day to the unending stupefaction of the French.
Matt MarkgrafNARRATOR
Where they slept was another matter, suggesting neither Corot nor Phidias.
Matt MarkgrafNARRATOR
The privates had houses first, then barns.
Matt MarkgrafNARRATOR
The barns were freed of the livestock, which was turned into meadows to graze, and the floors were dug down to clean earth, and vast quantities of formaldehyde were sprayed around.
Joe PaquetGUEST
Okay.
Joe PaquetGUEST
So, so the honesty of early Corot, Rome 1829, 1830, right? Mm-hmm.
Joe PaquetGUEST
Sensitivity of Isaac Levitan, which was completely off the charts.
Joe PaquetGUEST
The genius of subject ch- subjective choice making of Edward Hopper.
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