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How did Camille Corot’s 1833 Salon medal affect his ability to exhibit paintings?
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Camille Corot
Portrait de l'artiste, assis près d'un chevalet (“Portrait of the Artist, Seated Near an Easel”), oil on paper pasted on canvas by Camille Corot, 1825; in the Louvre, Paris.
When Camille Corot was awarded a second-class medal for his landscape of the forest of Fontainebleau at the 1833 Salon, it granted him the right to exhibit his future paintings at the Salon without having to submit them to a jury for prior approval.1