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 COROT French forces at Yorktown, Va., October 19, 1781. Cornwallis and his officers are pass- ing before the victorious generals, between the two lines of victorious troops ; in middle distance, the town with troops marching out. Painted in 1817-24 for $8,000. Orig- inal study in Yale College Gallery. COROT, (JEAN BAPTISTE) CAMILLE, born in Paris, July 20, 1796, died there, Feb. 23, 1875. Landscape paint- er, pupil of Mi- challon and after his death of Vic- tor Bertin. Went to Italy in 1826, and in studying nature as he con- tinued to do on returning to France, in Pro- vence, Normandy, andFontaiuebleau, learned to couple breadth of treatment with careful though not obtrusive detail An eminently suggestive and refined painter, gifted with a highly poetical and tender feeling, he has, from his peculiar excellence in treating still water, the sleeping woods, the broad, pale horizon and the veiled sky, been called the Theocritus of landscape painting. He is well characterized in a sonnet by au Ameri- can poet, as "Thou painter of the essences of things." At the height of his career, Corot is said to have made 200,000 francs a year by the sale of his pictures. Medals : 2d class, 1833 ; 1st j class, 1848 and 1855 ; 2d class, 1867; L. of Honour, 1846 ; Officer, 1867. Works : View ' at Narni, Roman Campagna (1827); two Ital- j ian Views, Duke of Orleans; another Italian View (1834), Douai Museum ; Souvenir of the Suburbs of Florence (1839), Metz Mu- ! seum ; Dame des Nymphs (1851), Roman j Forum, Coliseum, Luxembourg Museum ; Christ in the Garden (1849), Langres Muse- ; um ; Sunset in the Tyrol (1850), Marseilles; Souvenir of Marcoussis, bought by Emperor; Martyrdom of St. Sebastian (1853); Evening Star, W. T. Walters, Baltimore ; Morning, Evening (1855) ; Burning of Sodom, Nymph playing with a Cupid, The Concert, Sunset (1857) ; Dante and Virgil, Boston Museum ; Macbeth (1850); Idyl, Italian Tyrol, Studies at Ville d'Avray (1859); Sunrise, Orpheus, A Lake, Souvenir of Italy, Rest (18G1); Studyat Mery (1863) ; Souvenir of Morte- Fontaine, Gust of Wind (1864); Morning, Environs of LakeNemi (1865); Evening, Solitude (1866); Ruins of Castle of Pierrefonds, Morning, Evening (1867) ; Morning at Ville d'Avray (1868); Woman Reading, Morning at Ville d'Avray (1869) ; Landscape with Figures (1870); Near Arras (1872); Pastoral Scene, The Parson (1873); Arlem, Evening, Moon- light (1874); Woodsmen, Pleasures of Even- ing, Biblis (1875) ; Nymphs Dancing, Cor- nelius Vanderbilt, New York ; Danse des Amours, Chas. A, Dana, New York Ch. Blanc, Artistes, d. m. I., 365 ; Claretie, Pein- tres, etc. (1882), 97 ; Du Camp, Beaux Arts, 80 ; Leclercq.Caracteres, 184; Meyer, Gesch., Kunst-Chrouik, x. 437; C. Carr, Essays, 174 ; L'Art, i. 216, 240, 269, Mcnard ; Hamerton, French Painters ; Portfolio (1870), 60 (1875), 146; Gaz. des B. Arts (1875), xi. 330; 1881; Conternp. Rev., xxvi. 157 ; Overland Monthly, xv. 468. CORREA, DIEGO, died in 1550. Span- ish school. Painted a series of pictures of scenes from life of Christ, now in Madrid Museum, for Bernardino Convent of Vald- eiglesias. Style resembles that of Perugino, whence some think he studied at Florence. According to Siret, there is a picture in con- vent of Valdeiglesias signed D. Correa fecit, 1550. Christ Crucified, Dresden Museum. Stirling, i. 150. CORREGGIO,bornatCorreggioinl494(?), died there, March 5, 1534. Lombard school. Real name Antonio AUegri, son of Pelle- grino Allegri ; probably pupil of his father's brother, Lorenzo, and of Antonio Bartolotti, both second-rate painters of his native town. At Modena he is said to have found a better master in Francesco Bianchi, called Ferrari, who belongs to the school of Fraucia ; but 3.15