“He [ Delacroix ] is an eagle, I am only a lark.”

—  Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

as quoted in Corot, Gary Tinterow, Michael Pantazzi, Vincent Pomarède - Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France), National Gallery of Canada, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 1996, p. 272 – quote 65
1860s

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French landscape painter and printmaker in etching 1796–1875

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