THE COVER

摘要

Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) was born into a solidly bourgeoisie family in Paris who had survived not only the Revolution of the previous decade, but the Days of Terror that followed. Jean-Baptiste's father, who had once been a hairdresser (recall the elaborate coiffeurs of the French court), was now a clothier in the rue de Bac and his mother was a modiste. Few could have predicted that then* son would be a painter, let alone one of France's greatest landscape painters. Except perhaps for Cam-ille (as his family called him) himself.