1873 in art

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Events

• May - Vincent van Gogh is re-located to London by his employer, the art dealers Goupil & Cie.
• World exhibition in Vienna.
• Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley organize the Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, etc. for the purpose of exhibiting artworks independently.

Works

Degas - A Cotton Office in New Orleans

• William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Nymphs and Satyr
• Alexandre Cabanel - La Comtesse de Keller
• Edgar Degas - A Cotton Office in New Orleans
• Hans Gude - Nødhavn Ved Norskekysten
• Winslow Homer - The Boat Builders
• William Holman Hunt - The Shadow of Death
• Édouard Manet
  • Le Bon Bock ("The Good Pint") (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
  • The Railway ("The Gare Saint-Lazare") (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
• Jan Matejko - Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God
• Pál Szinyei Merse - Picnic in May (National Gallery of Hungary, Budapest)
• Claude Monet
  • The Artist's House at Argenteuil
  • Camille Monet on a Garden Bench
  • Poppies Blooming
• Ilya Repin - Barge Haulers on the Volga
• Heinrich Strack - Berlin Victory Column
• James McNeill Whistler - Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle

Births

• February 14 - Albert Guillaume, French painter and caricaturist (d. 1942)
• April 24 - André Bauchant, French painter (d. 1958)
• May 10 - Carl Eldh, Swedish painter and sculptor (d. 1954)
• July 7 - Albert Moulton Foweraker, English painter (d. 1942)
• date unknown - Jane Emmet de Glehn, American painter (d. 1961)

Deaths

• April 17 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter, engraver and silhouettist (b. 1783)
• April 28 - Giovanni Maria Benzoni, Italian sculptor (b. 1809)
• May 19 - Charles Lucy, English painter (b. 1814)
• July 8 - Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter (b. 1805)
• December 9 - William Bent Berczy, painter and political figure in Upper Canada (b. 1791)