1872 in art

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Events

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

Works

Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) (1872).

Paintings

• Frank Duveneck - The Whistling Boy (Cincinnati Art Museum)
• John Gast - American Progress
• Jean-Léon Gérôme - Pollice Verso ("Thumbs Down")
• Ivan Kramskoi - Christ in the Desert
• 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
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Beata Beatrix (Tate Britain).
• Alfred Sisley - Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garonne
• Wilhelm Trübner - Auf dem Kanapee ("On the Sofa") (Nationalgalerie, Berlin)

Sculptures

• 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)
• August 21 - Aubrey Beardsley, painter and illustrator (d. 1898)

Deaths

• April 2 - Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor and painter of portraits and historic scenes (b. 1791)
• May 24 - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (b. 1794)
• August 8 - Eduard Magnus, German painter (b. 1799)
• November 5 - Thomas Sully, portrait painter (b. 1783)
• December 23 - George Catlin - American painter who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West (b. 1796)