1868 in art
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Events

• Rodolphe Julian establishes the Académie Julian in Paris.

Works

See also: Category:1868 paintings

• Jean-Léon Gérôme—Death of Marshal Ney
• Édouard Manet
  • Luncheon in the Studio (Neue Pinakothek, Munich)
  • Mme. Manet at the Piano (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)
  • Portrait d’Emile Zola (“Portrait of Émile Zola”) (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)
  • Portrait of Théodore Duret (Musée du Petit Palais, Paris)
• Vasily Perov—At the Railroad
• Lawrence Alma-Tadema—Pheidias and the Frieze of the Parthenon, Athens. It is now kept at Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, England

Births

• November 11—Édouard Vuillard, painter (d. 1940)
• Georges Lacombe - French sculptor and painter (d. 1916)

Deaths

• January 28 - Adalbert Stifter, Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue (b. 1805)
• February 21—Giuseppe Abbati, painter (b. 1836)
• March 10—Herman Wilhelm Bissen, sculptor (b. 1798)
• March 29—Felix Slade, founder of the Slade School of Art (b. 1788)
• August 10 - Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet (b. 1835)
• George Cattermole, English illustrator and watercolourist (b. 1800)
• Emanuel Leutze, painter (b. 1816)
• Charles Méryon, etcher (b. 1821)
• François-Édouard Picot - French historic painter (b. 1786)
• John Burnet - Scottish engraver and painter (b. 1781/1784)
• Richard Rothwell, Irish portrait and genre painter (b. 1800)
• John Edward Carew - Irish sculptor (b. 1785)