1832 in art

Awards

• Prix de Rome
  • for painting – Antoine Wiertz
  • for sculpture – François Jouffroy

Works

Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa from the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji color woodcut, 10 1/8 × 14 15/16 inches (25.7 x 37.9 cm); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

• Hokusai – The Great Wave off Kanagawa
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Portrait of Monsieur Bertin

Births

• January 6 – Gustave Doré, French illustrator (d. 1883)
• January 23 – Édouard Manet, French painter, (died 1883)
• January 27 – Arthur Hughes, (d. 1915)
• March 4 – Samuel Colman, artist, (died 1920)
• June 1 – Henrietta Ward, English painter (d. 1924)
• December 12 – Mauritz de Haas, painter (d. 1895)

Deaths

• February 2 – Amos Doolittle, engraver (b. 1752)
• February 22 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness (b. 1760)
• March 13 – Aleksander Orłowski, Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire (b. 1777)
• March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and art critic (b. 1749)
• March 30 – Dora Stock, portrait painter (b. 1760)
• March 31 – Antoni Brodowski, Polish Neo-classicist painter and pedagogue (b. 1784)
• April 13 – Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, French miniature painter (b. 1759)
• April 22 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter (b. 1760)
• October 14 – Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and art writer (b. 1760)
• date unknown:
  • Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois, French physicist and painter (b. 1759)
  • Asensio Juliá, Spanish painter and engraver (b. 1760)