1872 in art
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[edit] Events
- February 20 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City
[edit] Works
[edit] Paintings
- Frank Duveneck - The Whistling Boy (Cincinnati Art Museum)
- John Gast - American Progress
- 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 of Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Alfred Sisley - Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garonne
- Wilhelm Trübner - Auf dem Kanapee ("On the Sofa") (Nationalgalerie, Berlin)
[edit] Sculptures
- Caspar Buberl - Fulton Memorial, New York City
[edit] Births
- February 25 - Alice Bailly Swiss painter and multimedia artist (d. 1938)
- March 7 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
[edit] Deaths
- November 5 - Thomas Sully, portrait painter
