1876 in art

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Events from the year 1876 in art.

Events

April – Impressionist exhibition at the house of Paul Durand-Ruel, 11 rue Peletier, in Paris, accompanied by Louis Edmond Duranty's essay The New Painting.
May 16 – German American "Napoleon of crime" Adam Worth steals Gainsborough's Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire from Agnew's gallery in Old Bond Street, London three weeks after its sale at Christie's for 10,000 guineas, the highest price ever paid for a painting at auction at this time.^[1] It is not recovered until 1901.
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.

Paintings

Lawrence Alma-Tadema
- An Audience at Agrippa's
- Ninety-Four Degrees in the Shade
Thomas Armstrong – Woman with Lilies
Edward Mitchell Bannister – Under the Oaks
Albert Fitch Bellows – Sunday in Devonshire
Gustave Caillebotte
- Le déjeuner ("Lunch")
- Le Pont de l'Europe ("The Europe Bridge")
- Portraits in the country
- Young Man at the Piano (Martial Caillebotte)
Paul Cézanne – Vase of Flowers
Ernest Christophe – La Comédie humaine – Le Masque (marble; Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
Georges Clairin – Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt
Gustave Courbet – Entree d'un Gave
Edgar Degas
- L'Absinthe (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- Dichesa 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")
James Wilson Alexander MacDonald – Statue of Fitz-Greene Halleck (bronze, New York City)
John MacWhirter – Spindrift
Édouard Manet – Before the Mirror (Guggenheim Museum, New York City)
Anton Mauve – Morning Ride on the Beach
John Everett Millais
- Lord Ronald Gower
- The Twins
Claude Monet
- Coin du jardin à Montgeron (Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg)
- La Japonaise (Camille Monet in Japanese Costume)
Gustave Moreau – Salome Dancing before Herod
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)
Ilya Repin – Sadko
Emma Sandys – Fiammetta
Henryk Siemiradzki – Nero's Torches
William James Stillman – English Wild Flowers
James Tissot
- A Passing Storm
- The Thames
Viktor Vasnetsov – Moving House

Sculptures

Births

February 8 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (died 1907)^[2]
Ásgrímur Jónsson - Ásgrímur Jónsson, Icelandic painter (died 1958)
March 23 – Muirhead Bone, Scottish-born etcher (died 1953)
April 1 – Jacoba van Heemskerck, Dutch painter and graphic artist (died 1923)
April 11 – Paul Henry, Irish painter (died 1958)
June 22 – Madeleine Vionnet, French fashion designer (died 1975)
July 12 – Alphaeus Philemon Cole, American portrait artist (died 1988)
July 17 – Melvin Ormond Hammond, Canadian photographer (died 1934)
August 9 – Augustin Lesage, French outsider artist (died 1954)
September 3 – Olive Edis, English photographer (died 1955)
September 14 – César Klein, German painter and designer (died 1954)
November 4 – James Earle Fraser, American sculptor (died 1953)
November 17 – August Sander, German photographer (died 1964)
December 23 – Stevan Aleksić, Serbian painter (died 1923).
date unknown – Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter and woodblock print maker (died 1950)

Deaths

January 22 – Sir George Harvey, Scottish painter (born 1806)
February 29
- Charles-Philippe Larivière, French academic painter and lithographer (born 1798)
- Jozef Van Lerius, Belgian romantic-historical painter (born 1823)
March 13 – Joseph von Führich, Austrian painter (born 1800)
April 8 – John Graham Lough, English sculptor of funerary monuments (born 1798)
June 11 – Giovanni Battista Cassevari, Italian miniature portrait painter (born 1789)
August 15 – John Frederick Lewis, English painter (born 1805)
August 27 – Eugène Fromentin, French painter (born 1820)
September 17 – Franz Nadorp, German painter primarily working and living in Rome (born 1794)
October 21 – Uroš Knežević, Serbian painter (born 1811)
November 10 – Édouard Traviès, French painter (born 1809)
November 18 – Narcisse Virgilio Diaz, French painter (born 1807)
date unknown – Robert Richard Scanlan, Irish painter and portraitist (born 1801)

References

^ Macintyre, Ben (1994-07-31). "The Disappearing Duchess". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-05-30.
^ Buchholz, Elke Linda (2003). Women Artists [Künstlerinnen] (in German). Munich: Prestel. p. 79. ISBN 978-3-79132-967-3.

[1] Macintyre, Ben (1994-07-31). "The Disappearing Duchess". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-05-30.

[2] Buchholz, Elke Linda (2003). Women Artists [Künstlerinnen] (in German). Munich: Prestel. p. 79. ISBN 978-3-79132-967-3.

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