You certainly captured what I always interpreted as Corot's rather haughty demeanor that was in the original.
Sometimes artists, who were deviating from what the Academies ordained to be the way art should be, they would do a painting with a visual message they knew would get seen. This one might have been saying "Just try and stop me" to his critics. I'm not aware of his story, so I don't know whether that applied or not. But I interpret it the same as I would seeing someone looking at me that way. I know for sure that was what Klimpt was doing with his critics when he painted a beautiful redhead mooning the viewers.
Good job.
"Not a bit is wasted and the best is yet to come. . ." -- remembered from a dream