Italian Landscape, ca. 1825?28, Oil on paper, laid down on canvas, 5 x 10 5/8 in. (12. 7 x 27 cm), Drawings, Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796?1875 Paris), At the age of twenty-nine, three years after choosing to become a painter, Corot left Paris for his first Italian sojourn (1825?28). In Rome he joined a growing number of artists who formed one of the earliest schools of open-air landscape painting