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Article: Corot refigured. (painting, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum; New York, New York)
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- Art in America
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- January 1, 1997
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We hardly know Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Not even much legend clings to the name, in contrast to those of a younger contemporary like Courbet or a successor like Cezanne. Writing in the catalogue for the Corot retrospective which is on view in New York until Jan. 19 after having been seen in Paris and Ottawa, Michael Pantazzi quotes Edmond de Goncourt's description of Corot in 1855 as "the happy man par excellence. When he is painting, happy to paint; when he is not painting, happy to rest." Pantazzi contrasts Goncourt's view of the nearly 60-year-old painter with another critic's earlier and more somber view of Corot as an "austere, meditative" man of "calm, ascetic ...
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