1863 in art

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Contents 1 Exhibitions 2 Works 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Exhibitions

• First exhibition of the Salon des Refusés, and coining of the term avant-garde.

[edit] Works

• The Birth of Venus - Alexandre Cabanel
• Le déjeuner sur l'herbe ("Luncheon on the Grass") by Édouard Manet (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Olympia by Édouard Manet (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

[edit] Births

• April 3 - Henry Van de Velde, painter, architect and designer, one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement
• November 11 - Paul Signac, neo-Impressionist painter
• December 12 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter

[edit] Deaths

• February 16 - Alvan Fisher, portrait painter
• April 4 - Ludwig Emil Grimm, painter and engraver
• June 5 - Marie Ellenrieder, painter
• August 13 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter
• date unknown - Étienne-Jean Delécluze, painter