. Art in France. o conscientiously to paint well. By the year 1830, however, a young man, Corot (1796-1875),had made great progress in the discovery of Nature and its pictu-resque qualities, because he was not embarrassed by the thousanddifficulties which arrested more than one painter. He did notbelong to the group of painters known as the School of Fontaine-bleau; he outstripped them all, after starting from historical land-scape, in the manner of Aligny, and of his master, Berlin. In hislong and prolific life, Corot certainly varied his effects, but he alwavsreduced the most complex landsca
. Art in France. o conscientiously to paint well. By the year 1830, however, a young man, Corot (1796-1875),had made great progress in the discovery of Nature and its pictu-resque qualities, because he was not embarrassed by the thousanddifficulties which arrested more than one painter. He did notbelong to the group of painters known as the School of Fontaine-bleau; he outstripped them all, after starting from historical land-scape, in the manner of Aligny, and of his master, Berlin. In hislong and prolific life, Corot certainly varied his effects, but he alwavsreduced the most complex landscape to the delicate gradations ofluminous values. Local colours were subdued or effaced, that thevmight not disturb hissubtle modulations. .Al-ways a confused mass ofthat foliage which theDutchmen liked to paintin detail; always thestony hardness of the fore-ground, the hairy cover-ing of dry grass or theacid crudity of themeadow enveloped by alight veil of in the full light, adiaphanous mist veils the. FIG. 740.—COROT. THE PONDS AT VILLE-DAVRAV. (Museum of Rouen.) 355 ART IN FRANCE
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