1872 in art

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Events from the year 1872 in art.

Events

• February 20 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
• June – American-born painter James McNeill Whistler exhibits Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother , painted the previous year, at the 104th Royal Academy summer exhibition in London after the curator Sir William Boxall threatens to resign from the R.A. if it is rejected.
• November 13 (07:35) (probable date) – Claude Monet begins painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) as viewed from his hotel room at Le Havre. ^[1]
• November – Edward Lear acquires his cat Foss. ^[2]
• date unknown
  • William De Morgan sets up an art pottery in Chelsea, London. ^[3]
  • The first "Wallace fountains", to the design of sculptor Charles-Auguste Lebourg, are installed in Paris.
  • Lise Tréhot last models for Renoir.

Works

Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet

The Fair Toxophilites by William Powell Frith

See also: Category:1872 sculptures

• Peter Nicolai Arbo – The Wild Hunt of Odin
• Arnold Böcklin – Self-portrait with Death playing the fiddle
• Caspar Buberl – Fulton Memorial (New York City)
• Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
  • Hope
  • The White Rocks
• Edgar Degas
  • Lorenzo Pagans and Auguste De Gas (completed) ^[4]
  • The Ballet Scene from Meyerbeer's Opera "Robert le Diable" (original version, first shown) ^[5]
• Gustave Doré – illustrations to London: A Pilgrimage (published)
• Frank Duveneck – The Whistling Boy (Cincinnati Art Museum)
• William Powell Frith – The Fair Toxophilites
• John Gast – American Progress
• Jean-Léon Gérôme – Pollice Verso ("Thumbs Down")
• Ivan Kramskoi
  • Christ in the Desert
  • Old Man with a crutch
• Henri Fantin-Latour – The Corner of the Table
• Édouard Manet
  • Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • Berthe Morisot with a Fan (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • Berthe Morisot (Private collection)
  • Le chemin de fer ("The Railroad") (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
  • Racecourse in the Bois de Boulogne (Private collection)
• Claude Monet
  • Effet de Brouillard
  • Impression, Sunrise
  • Springtime
• Thomas Moran – The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (first version)
• Berthe Morisot
  • The Cradle (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • On the Balcony
• Vasily Perov
  • Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Portrait of Vladimir Dal
• Illarion Pryanishnikov – Empties
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Claude Monet Reading
  • Parisian Women in Algerian Costume (The Harem)
  • Le Pont-Neuf
  • Woman with Parasol Seated in the Garden
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Beata Beatrix (replica, commissioned by William Graham) ^[6]
• Emil Jakob Schindler – The Steamer station on the Danube opposite Kaisermühlen
• Alfred Sisley
  • Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garonne
  • Footbridge at Argenteuil
• Marcus Stone – Edward II and his favourite, Piers Gaveston
• James Tissot – Bad News
• Wilhelm Trübner – Auf dem Kanapee ("On the Sofa") (Nationalgalerie, Berlin)
• Frederick Walker – The Harbour of Refuge
• James McNeill Whistler – Arrangement in Gray: Portrait of the Painter
• Mårten Eskil Winge – Thor's Fight with the Giants

Births

• January 16 – Edward Gordon Craig, English theatrical designer (died 1966)
• January 25 – Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, English painter (died 1945)
• February 25 – Alice Bailly Swiss painter and multimedia artist (died 1938)
• March 7 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (died 1944)
• April 18 – Beta Vukanović, Serbian painter and centenarian (died 1972)
• August 21 – Aubrey Beardsley, English painter and illustrator (died 1898) ^[7]

Deaths

• April 2 – Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor and painter of portraits and historic scenes (born 1791)
• April 10 – John Mix Stanley, American painter (born 1814)
• May 24 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (born 1794)
• August 8 – Eduard Magnus, German painter (born 1799)
• September 30 – Jakob Alt, German landscape painter (born 1789)
• October 29 – Thomas Combe, English printer and patron of the arts (born 1796)
• November 5 – Thomas Sully, English-born American portrait painter (born 1783)
• November 13 – Margaret Sarah Carpenter, English portrait painter (born 1793)
• November 25 – John Partridge, British artist and portrait painter (born 1789)
• December 23 – George Catlin, American painter who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West (born 1796)
• probable – Severin Roesen, American painter of still lives (born 1815)

References

1. Olson, Donald W. (2014). "Dating Impression, Sunrise". Monet's Impression, Sunrise: the biography of a painting. Paris: Éditions Hazan; Musée Marmottan Monet. pp. 80–105. ISBN   978-0-300-21088-0.
2. "A Chronology of Edward Lear". Edward Lear Home Page. 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
3. Gaunt, William; Clayton-Stamm, M. D. E. (1971). William De Morgan. London: Studio Vista. p. 168.
4. "The Collection > Modern and Contemporary Art > Lorenzo Pagans and Auguste De Gas – Edgar Degas 1871–1872". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
5. "The Collection > European Paintings > The Ballet from "Robert le Diable" – Edgar Degas 1871". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
6. Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 14–17, haithitrust.org, 2012-07-09, p. 55, retrieved 2015-06-23
7. Crawford, Alan (23 September 2004). "Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (1872–1898), illustrator". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/1821 .