1876 in art

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Events

• Henrietta Montalba exhibits at the Royal Academy for the first time.
• Kathleen Newton moves into the London home of James Tissot, becoming his mistress and model.

Works

Renoir - Bal du moulin de la Galette

See also: Category:1876 sculptures

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema - An Audience at Agrippa's
• Edward Mitchell Bannister - Under the Oaks
• Albert Fitch Bellows - Sunday in Devonshire
• Gustave Caillebotte - Le pont de l'Europe ("The Europe Bridge")
• Paul Cézanne - Vase of Flowers
• Edgar Degas
  • L'Absinthe (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • Duchesa di Montejasi with her Daughters, Elena and Camilla (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Paul Dubois - My Children
• Thomas Eakins - The Chess Players
• Winslow Homer - Breezing Up ("A Fair Wind")
• Édouard Manet - Before the Mirror (Guggenheim Museum, New York)
• Claude Monet - Le Jardin (Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg)

Degas - L'Absinthe

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • A Girl with a Watering Can (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
  • Bal du moulin de la Galette ("Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette") (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • The Swing
  • In the garden (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)
• James Tissot
  • A Passing Storm
  • The Thames

Births

• February 8 - Paula Modersohn-Becker, painter (d. 1907)
• April 11 - Paul Henry, Irish painter (d. 1958)
• June 22 - Madeleine Vionnet, French fashion designer (d. 1975)
• July 12 - Alphaeus Philemon Cole, American portrait artist (d. 1988)
• July 17 - Melvin Ormond Hammond, photographer (d. 1934)
• September 14 - César Klein, German painter and designer (d. 1954)
• November 17 - August Sander, German photographer (d. 1964)
• date unknown - Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter and woodblock print maker (d. 1950)

Deaths

• January 22 - Sir George Harvey, Scottish painter (b. 1806)
• February 29 - Charles-Philippe Larivière, French academic painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• March 13 - Joseph von Führich, Austrian painter (b. 1800)
• August 15 - John Frederick Lewis, painter (b. 1805)
• August 27 - Eugène Fromentin, painter (b. 1820)
• November 18 - Narcisse Virgilio Diaz, French painter (b. 1807)
• date unknown
  • Robert Richard Scanlan, Irish painter and portraitist (b. 1801)
  • John Graham Lough, English sculptor of funerary monuments (b. 1789)