1869 in art

Events

Works

Paintings

*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - "The Wine Shop"
*Gustave Courbet - "The Cliff at Etretat after the Storm" (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
*Daniel Huntington - "Sowing the Word"
*Frederick Richard Lee - "Morning in the Meadows"
*Édouard Manet
**"The Balcony" (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
**"Beach at Boulogne-sur-Mer" (Private collection)
**"The Departure of the Folkestone Boat" (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
**"Moonlight over the Port of Boulogne" (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
**"The Reading" (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
**"Repose (Berthe Morisot)" (Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island)
*Mihály Munkácsy - "Last Day of a Condemned Man"

culptures

*Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux - "The Dance" (Louvre, Paris)

Births

*February 7 - Xavier Martinez, painter (d. 1943)
*March 1 - Pietro Canonica, sculptor (d. 1959)
*April 6
**Marc Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, painter and sculptor (d. 1937)
**Louis Raemaekers, painter and cartoonist (d. 1956)
*October 22 - August Gaul, sculptor (d. 1922)
*December 18 - Edward Willis Redfield, landscape painter (d. 1965)
*December 31 - Henri Matisse, painter (d. 1954)
* Kate Carew, caricaturist (d. 1961)

Deaths

*June 10 - Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, painter (b. 1800)
*July 10 - Jan Wnęk, carpenter and sculptor (aviation accident) (b. 1828)
*August - Baron Leys, painter (b. 1815)
*August 8 - Roger Fenton, photographer (b. 1819)
* Johann Friedrich Overbeck, painter (b. 1789)
* François-Joseph Navez - Belgian neo-classical painter (b. 1787)