- 1868 in art
Events
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Rodolphe Julian establishes theAcadémie Julian in Paris.Works
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Jean-Léon Gérôme —"Death of Marshal Ney"
*Édouard Manet
**"Luncheon in the Studio" (Neue Pinakothek ,Munich )
**"Mme. Manet at the Piano" (Musée d’Orsay,Paris )
**"Portrait d’Emile Zola " (“Portrait of Émile Zola”) (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)
**"Portrait of Théodore Duret" (Musée du Petit Palais , Paris)
*Vasily Perov —"At the Railroad"
*Lawrence Alma-Tadema —"Pheidias and the Frieze of the Parthenon, Athens". It is now kept atBirmingham City Museum and Art Gallery ,England Births
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November 11 —Édouard Vuillard , painter (d. 1940)
* Georges Lacombe - French sculptor and painter (d. 1916)Deaths
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January 28 -Adalbert Stifter ,Austria nwriter ,poet , painter, andpedagogue (b. 1805)
*February 21 —Giuseppe Abbati , painter (b. 1836)
*March 10 —Herman Wilhelm Bissen , sculptor (b. 1798)
*March 29 —Felix Slade , founder of theSlade School of Art (b. 1788)
*August 10 -Adah Isaacs Menken , Americanactress , painter andpoet (b. 1835)
*George Cattermole , English illustrator and watercolourist (b. 1800)
*Emanuel Leutze , painter (b. 1816)
*Charles Méryon , etcher (b. 1821)
*François-Édouard Picot - French historic painter (b. 1786)
* John Burnet - Scottishengraver and painter (b. 1781/1784)
*Richard Rothwell , Irish portrait and genre painter (b. 1800)
*John Edward Carew - Irishsculptor (b. 1785)
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