1876 in art

Events from the year 1876 in art.

Events

• April – Impressionist exhibition at the house of Paul Durand-Ruel, 11 rue Peletier, in Paris.
• May 16 – German American "Napoleon of crime" Adam Worth steals Gainsborough's portrait Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire from Agnew's gallery in Old Bond Street, London.
• 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.

Works

Renoir – Bal du moulin de la Galette

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema
  • An Audience at Agrippa's
  • Ninety-Four Degrees in the Shade
• Thomas Ball (artist) – Daniel Webster (bronze, New York City)
• Edward Mitchell Bannister – Under the Oaks
• Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi – Marquis de Lafayette (bronze, New York City)
• 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)
  • Duchesa di Montejasi with her Daughters, Elena and Camilla (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Degas – L'Absinthe

• Paul Dubois – My Children
• Thomas Eakins – The Chess Players
• Winslow Homer – Breezing Up ("A Fair Wind")
• James Wilson Alexander MacDonald – 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
• 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 in the Underwater Kingdom
• Emma Sandys – Fiammetta
• Henryk Siemiradzki – Nero's Torches
• James Tissot
  • A Passing Storm
  • The Thames
• Viktor Vasnetsov – Moving House

Births

• February 8 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (died 1907)
• March 23 – Muirhead Bone, Scottish-born etcher (died 1953)
• 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 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)
• March 13 – Joseph von Führich, Austrian painter (born 1800)
• April 8 – John Graham Lough, English sculptor of funerary monuments (born 1798)
• August 15 – John Frederick Lewis, English painter (born 1805)
• August 27 – Eugène Fromentin, French painter (born 1820)
• September 17 – Franz Nadorp, German painter who primarily worked and lived 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
  • Giovanni Battista Cassevari, Italian miniature portrait painter, (born 1789)
  • Robert Richard Scanlan, Irish painter and portraitist (born 1801)