Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) was a pivotal figure in 19th century landscape painting. A prolific artist, his ideas and artistic output was of enormous influence on his contemporaries in the Barbizon School as well as on the Impressionists and the generations of artists that followed. Corot is best known for his dreamy landscapes, created with soft brushwork and muted colors. Often they are populated with a single traveler walking down a road, or with groups of romantic nymphs or bathers inspired by mythological stories. His drawings are vastly varied in medium and support, but his late drawings done with dark charcoal and in a tonal style, are his most accomplished.