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What did Charles Baudelaire say about Camille Corot in his review of the 1845 Salon?
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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.
In his review of the 1845 Salon, the poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire wrote that "Camille Corot stands at the head of the modern school of landscape."1