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When did the French state purchase Camille Corot’s painting The Little Shepherd?
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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.
The French state purchased Camille Corot’s painting The Little Shepherd in 1840.1