Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

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A French painter who paints landscapes, especially scenes of Italy

proper noun

: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

During his travels in Italy, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot produced some of his most celebrated landscapes.

Examples

Art historians regard Jean Baptiste Camille Corot as a major influence on the Impressionists.
The museum's new exhibit features several paintings by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot.
I love Jean Baptiste Camille Corot!
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot is famous.
Art historians regard Jean Baptiste Camille Corot as a major influence on the Impressionists.
During his travels in Italy, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot produced some of his most celebrated landscapes.
The museum's new exhibit features several paintings by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot.

Surface Forms

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot main

Morphology

Jean + Baptiste + Camille + Corot

This string is a proper name composed of personal names rather than a compositional phrase: the parts ('Jean', 'Baptiste', 'Camille', 'Corot') do not combine to signal the biographical meaning. A B1 learner who knows the individual names would not be able to infer that this refers to a nineteenth‑century French landscape painter, so the item is not transparently derivable from its constituents.

Etymology

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot was a French painter famous for calm, soft 'landscapes' of Italy and France; imagine him with an easel by misty hills to remember that his name refers to this important landscape artist.