How long did Camille Corot stay in Italy during his first visit?

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Camille Corot: Portrait de l'artiste, assis près d'un chevalet — 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.

Camille Corot spent three years in Italy during his first visit, which began in the autumn of 1825. During this influential period, he painted in Rome and the surrounding countryside, traveled to Naples and Ischia, and eventually returned to Paris by way of Venice.1