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Which Barbizon School painters were friends of Camille Corot?
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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 was a close friend of several prominent members of the Barbizon school, a group of artists dedicated to naturalistic landscape painting.1
Among the Barbizon painters with whom Corot maintained close friendships were:
Corot was known for his kindness and generosity toward his fellow artists, often providing financial support to those who were less successful than himself.1