Memories of Mortefontaine

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was a French painter whose father was a wigmaker married with Francesca Oberson (from Friburg, Switzerland), who was a dressmaker. The store of his father had an enviable reputation during the Empire period and the Restoration. Corot enjoyed a half grant that was given by the imperial government. He dropped out the classical education, which he seemed to feel not inclined to, in order to...

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