1883 in art

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Events

• May - Claude Monet settles in Giverny.
• 28 October - Les XX established in Brussels by Octave Maus.

Works

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance in the Country, 1883, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

• William Merritt Chase
  • Mrs Meigs at the Piano Organ
  • Portrait of Miss Dora Wheeler
• Pierre Auguste Cot - The Storm
• Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - The Dream
• William Powell Frith - A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881
• Ivan Kramskoi - Portrait of an Unknown Woman
• Claude Monet - Stormy Sea in Étretat
• William Morris - Strawberry Thief textile design
• Walter Osborne - Apple Gathering, Quimperlé
• Paul Philippoteaux - Gettysburg Cyclorama
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir:
  • By the Seashore
  • Dance at Bougival
  • Dance in the Country
  • The Umbrellas (Les Parapluies)
• Ilya Repin - Religious Procession in Kursk Province
• James Tissot
  • The Bridesmaid
  • A Little Nimrod
• Vincent van Gogh
  • Cottages (continuing series)
  • Peasant Character Studies (continuing series)
  • Bulb Fields
  • Cows in the Meadow (lost)
  • Drawbridge in Nieuw-Amsterdam (watercolor)
  • Farm with Stacks of Peat
  • Farmhouse Among Trees
  • Farmhouses in Loosduinen near The Hague at Twilight
  • Footbridge across a Ditch
  • Landscape with a Church at Twilight
  • Landscape with Dunes
  • Landscape with Trees (watercolor)
  • Landscape with Wheelbarrow (watercolor)
  • Marshy Landscape
  • Meadows near Rijswijk and the Schenkweg
  • Peatery in Drenthe
  • Three Figures near a Canal with Windmill
  • A Wind-Beaten Tree
• William Wetmore Story - Chief Justice John Marshall (bronze)

Births

• 3 February - Camille Bombois, French naïve painter (d.1970).
• 18 February - Jacques Ochs, French artist, épée and foil fencer and Olympic gold medallist (d.1971).
• 12 April - Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (d.1976).
• 24 June - Jean Metzinger, painter (d.1956).
• 19 August - Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (d.1972).
• 9 November - Charles Demuth, painter (d.1935).
• 4 December - Felice Casorati, painter (d.1963).
• 26 December - Maurice Utrillo, French painter (d.1955).
• date unknonwn - Charles Jourdan, French fashion designer (d.1976).

Deaths

• January 19 - Guillaume Geefs, sculptor (b. 1805)
• January 23 - Gustave Doré, French illustrator (b. 1832)
• February 26 - Miguel Ângelo Lupi, Portuguese painter (b. 1826)
• April 30 - Édouard Manet, French painter (b. 1832)
• August 19 - József Borsos, portrait painter and photographer (b. 1821)
• November 24 - Albert Fitch Bellows, landscape painter (b. 1829)
• December 11 - Richard Doyle, illustrator (b. 1824)
• date unknown
  • Edward Calvert - English printmaker and painter (b. 1799)
  • Clark Mills, American sculptor (b. 1810)