1866 in art

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Works

Monet's painting of his future wife Camille Doncieux

See also: Category:1866 sculptures

• Paul Cézanne - Portrait of Louis-Auguste Cézanne, Father of the Artist, reading l'Evénement (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Agostino (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
• Gustave Courbet
  • L'Origine du monde
  • Le Sommeil
• Edgar Degas - Steeplechase – The Fallen Jockey
• Winslow Homer - Prisoners from the Front (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• Édouard Manet
  • The Fifer (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • A King Charles Spaniel (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
  • Still Life with Melon and Peaches (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
  • Woman with a Parrot (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• Claude Monet
  • Camille (The Woman in the Green Dress)
  • Le déjeuner sur l’herbe
  • Women in the Garden (begun)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti - The Beloved

Births

• January 23 - Lydia Field Emmet, painter and designer (died 1952)
• July 3 - Ambroise Vollard, art dealer (died 1939)
• unknown date
  • Milly Childers, painter (died 1922)

Deaths

• January 15 - Massimo d'Azeglio, Italian statesman, novelist and painter (b. 1798)
• January 27 - John Gibson, sculptor (b. 1790)
• March 23 - Ferdinand von Arnim, architect and watercolour painter (b. 1814)
• April 1 - Chester Harding, American portrait painter (b. 1792)
• April 3 - Frederick William Fairholt, engraver (b. 1814)
• April 26 - Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt, painter and astronomer (b. 1802)
• November 23 - Paul Gavarni, caricaturist (b. 1801/1804)
• date unknown
  • William Bewick, English portrait painter (b. 1795)
  • George Petrie - Irish painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist (b. 1790)