1868 in art

Events

• Rodolphe Julian establishes the Académie Julian in Paris.
• Deutsches Gewerbe-Museum zu Berlin established.

Works

Holman Hunt - Isabella and the Pot of Basil

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema — Pheidias and the Frieze of the Parthenon, Athens (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, England)
• Frédéric Bazille
  • Self-portrait
  • View of the Village
• Albert Bierstadt
  • Among the Sierra Nevada, California
  • In the Sierras
  • Tyrolean Landscape
  • Yosemite Valley, Yosemite Park (approximate date)
• Léon-Alexandre Delhomme — Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul (sculpture)
• Lowes Cato Dickinson — Gladstone's Cabinet of 1886
• Jean-Léon Gérôme — Death of Marshal Ney
• George P. A. Healy — The Peacemakers
• Holman Hunt — Isabella and the Pot of Basil (large and small versions)
• Charles-Auguste Lebourg — The Child and the Grasshopper (marble)
• Édouard Manet
  • The Balcony
  • Luncheon in the Studio (Neue Pinakothek, Munich)
  • Mme. Manet at the Piano (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • Portrait d’Émile Zola (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)
  • Portrait of Théodore Duret (Musée du Petit Palais, Paris)
• John Everett Millais — Vanessa
• Claude Monet — On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt
• Albert Joseph Moore
  • Azaleas
  • A Greek Play (tempera panel for proscenium of Queen's Theatre, Long Acre, London)
• Vasily Perov — At the Railroad
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir — In the Summer (The Bohemian girl)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • The Blue Silk Dress (Walker Art Gallery (National Museums Liverpool))
  • Lady Lilith (original version)
  • Pia de' Tolomei
• Frederick Sandys — Medea
• James Tissot — Le Balcon du Cercle de la rue Royale
• Frederick Walker — The Vagrants

Births

• April 6 - Helen Hyde, etcher and engraver (died 1919)
• June 18 - Georges Lacombe, French sculptor and painter (died 1916)
• November 11 - Édouard Vuillard, painter (died 1940)

Deaths

• January 28 - Adalbert Stifter, Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue (born 1805)
• February 21 - Giuseppe Abbati, painter (born 1836)
• March - John Burnet, Scottish engraver and painter (born 1781/1784)
• March 10 - Herman Wilhelm Bissen, sculptor (born 1798)
• March 29 - Felix Slade, founder of the Slade School of Art (born 1788)
• May 24 - Emanuel Leutze, painter (born 1816)
• August 10
  • George Cattermole, English illustrator and watercolourist (born 1800)
  • Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet (born 1835)
• September 13 - Richard Rothwell, Irish portrait and genre painter (born 1800)
• September 27 - August Piepenhagen, German painter active in Bohemia (born 1791)
• October 10 - François-Édouard Picot, French historic painter (born 1786)
• November 23 - Charles Méryon, etcher (born 1821)
• December 1 - John Edward Carew, Irish sculptor (born 1785)
• date unknown
  • Georg Heinrich Busse, German landscape painter and engraver (born 1810)
  • Johann Baptist Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (born 1782)
  • Claude Victor de Boissieu, French artist and local politician (born 1783)
  • Louis Royer, Austrian Netherlands sculptor (born 1793)