- 1872 in art
Events
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February 20 - TheMetropolitan Museum of Art opens inNew York City Works
Paintings
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Frank Duveneck - "The Whistling Boy" (Cincinnati Art Museum )
* John Gast - ""
*Jean-Léon Gérôme - "Pollice Verso" ("Thumbs Down")
*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 ofFyodor Dostoevsky
*Alfred Sisley - "Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garonne"
*Wilhelm Trübner - "Auf dem Kanapee" ("On the Sofa") (Nationalgalerie,Berlin )culptures
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Caspar Buberl - "Fulton Memorial",New York City Births
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February 25 -Alice Bailly Swiss painter and multimedia artist (d. 1938)
*March 7 -Piet Mondrian , Dutch painter (d. 1944)
*Aubrey Beardsley , painter and illustrator (d. 1898)Deaths
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November 5 -Thomas Sully , portrait painter (b. 1783)
*August 8 -Eduard Magnus , German painter (b. 1799)
*George Catlin - American painter specialized in portraits of Native Americans in theOld West (b. 1796)
*Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld - German painter (b. 1794)
*Samuel F. B. Morse - American painter of portraits and historic scenes, thecreator of a single wiretelegraph system andMorse Code (b. 1791)
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