1872 in art

1872 in art

Events

*February 20 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City

Works

Paintings

*Frank Duveneck - "The Whistling Boy" (Cincinnati Art Museum)
* John Gast - ""
*Jean-Léon Gérôme - "Pollice Verso" ("Thumbs Down")
*Édouard Manet
**"Berthe Morisot with a Fan" (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
**"Berthe Morisot" (Private collection)
**"Le chemin de fer" ("The Railroad") (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
**"Racecourse in the Bois de Boulogne" (Private collection)
*Claude Monet - "Impression, soleil levant" ("Impression, Sunrise") - dated 1872, but probably created in 1873
*Berthe Morisot - "The Cradle" (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
*Vasily Perov - Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky
*Alfred Sisley - "Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garonne"
*Wilhelm Trübner - "Auf dem Kanapee" ("On the Sofa") (Nationalgalerie, Berlin)

culptures

*Caspar Buberl - "Fulton Memorial", New York City

Births

* February 25 - Alice Bailly Swiss painter and multimedia artist (d. 1938)
* March 7 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
* Aubrey Beardsley, painter and illustrator (d. 1898)

Deaths

*November 5 - Thomas Sully, portrait painter (b. 1783)
*August 8 - Eduard Magnus, German painter (b. 1799)
* George Catlin - American painter specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West (b. 1796)
* Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld - German painter (b. 1794)
* Samuel F. B. Morse - American painter of portraits and historic scenes, the creator of a single wire telegraph system and Morse Code (b. 1791)


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