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The Met, in an effort to show off Corot's strengths in genres other than landscape, makes room for his large-scale Salon paintings, few of which exist in American collections.
Corot is often referred to as a pioneer of plein-air painting, but as the Brooklyn show, called "In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting," makes clear, the practice of making outdoor sketches in oil was well-established by the time of his first Italian campaign in 1826.
Corot was born in 1796, and his 200 th birthday is the pretext for two mesmerizing shows in New York this fall: a wide-ranging retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a more specialized show at the Brooklyn Museum built around Corot's Italian visits.
(During the final year of his life, Corot was still fidgeting with the unconvincing antlers sprouting from poor Actaeon's head.)
He moved, however, not toward anything resembling social protest; one of Corot's rare representations of modernization--a view of a textile factory with a woman sitting at a pre-industrial spinning wheel in the foreground--is more wistful than indignant.
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