1872 in art

Events from the year 1872 in art.

Events

• February 20 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
• May 5 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1872 begins at Burlington House in London
• 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.
• November – Edward Lear acquires his cat Foss.
• date unknown
• William De Morgan sets up an art pottery in Chelsea, London.
• The first "Wallace fountains", to the design of sculptor Charles-Auguste Lebourg, are installed in Paris.
• Lise Tréhot last models for Renoir.

Works

• Peter Nicolai Arbo – The Wild Hunt of Odin
• Arnold Böcklin – '
• Caspar Buberl – Fulton Memorial (New York City)
• Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
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• Giuseppe De Nittis – The Road from Naples to Brindisi
• Edgar Degas
• Lorenzo Pagans and Auguste De Gas (completed)
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• Gustave Doré – illustrations to ' (published)
• Frank Duveneck – The Whistling Boy (Cincinnati Art Museum)
• William Powell Frith – The Fair Toxophilites
• John Gast – '
• Jean-Léon Gérôme – Pollice Verso ("Thumbs Down")
• Ivan Kramskoi
• Christ in the Desert
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• Henri Fantin-Latour – The Corner of the Table
• Jules Joseph Lefebvre – The Grasshopper
• 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
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• Impression, Sunrise
• Springtime
• Thomas Moran – The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (first version)
• Berthe Morisot
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• Vasily Perov
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• Illarion Pryanishnikov – '
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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• Parisian Women in Algerian Costume (The Harem)
• Le Pont-Neuf
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• Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Beata Beatrix (replica, commissioned by William Graham)
• Emil Jakob Schindler – '
• Alfred Sisley
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• Marcus Stone – '
• James Tissot
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• An Interesting Story
• Wilhelm Trübner – Auf dem Kanapee ("On the Sofa") (Nationalgalerie, Berlin)
• Frederick Walker – The Harbour of Refuge
• James McNeill Whistler – '
• MÃ¥rten Eskil Winge – Thor's Fight with the Giants