1872 in art

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See also: 1871 in art, other events of 1872, 1873 in art, list of years in art.

Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• February 20 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City

[edit] Works

• Caspar Buberl - Fulton Memorial, New York City
• John Gast - American Progress
• Jean-Léon Gérôme - Pollice Verso
• Berthe Morisot with a Fan by Édouard Manet (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Berthe Morisot by Édouard Manet (Private collection)
• Le chemin de fer ("The Railroad") by Édouard Manet (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
• Racecourse in the Bois de Boulogne by Édouard Manet (Private collection)
• Vasily Perov - Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Alfred Sisley - Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garonne

[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