“There is a certain spirit of simplicity in him,” said P. Valerie, painter. And he added: “The poet is born in Coro surprisingly early.” The desire for simplicity and poetry pervades all of Korot’s art regardless of genre. The child taking the first steps is the whole revelation; a young girl full of joyful anticipation, foreboding and mild sadness, it was precisely in these images that the Koro-portraitist personality manifested itself.
The portraits he created were very small in size and were intended for a narrow circle of relatives. Models changed, the inner spirit of the portraits remained unchanged, for all the images were “Koro’s children”, in all of whom he invariably felt harmonious.
At the same time, Korot retained in the 1830s-1840s a commitment to a very precise transfer of individual features of models, to their social characteristics. All of his heroes are middle-class Parisians dressed in casual clothes; their appearance is similar to the characters of Chardin bears the imprint of home comfort and warmth.
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