A Life Immersed in Light and Landscape Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, a name that resonates with the tranquil beauty of 19th-century French landscape painting, was born into a comfortable Parisian bourgeois family on July 16, 1796. Though initially steered towards a commercial path, destiny – and perhaps an innate artistic sensibility – intervened. His early years were marked by an unconventional upbringing; entrusted to the care of a n…