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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 received private instruction from Achille-Etna Michallon and Jean-Victor Bertin, both of whom were followers of the Neoclassical landscape painter Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes.12
Although he pursued this formal training with his father's support, Corot later maintained that this instruction did not significantly influence his artistic style. From the beginning of his career, he preferred to learn through firsthand experience by sketching outdoors rather than working in a studio.21