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What was Camille Corot’s first important painting shown at the Paris 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.
Camille Corot’s first important work shown at the Paris Salon was The Bridge at Narni, which was exhibited in 1827 while he was still in Italy.1