1869 in art

[edit] Events

• (unknown)

[edit] Works

[edit] Paintings

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Wine Shop
• Gustave Courbet - The Cliff at Etretat after the Storm (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
• Daniel Huntington - Sowing the Word
• Frederick Richard Lee - Morning in the Meadows
• Édouard Manet
  • The Balcony (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • Beach at Boulogne-sur-Mer (Private collection)
  • The Departure of the Folkestone Boat (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
  • Moonlight over the Port of Boulogne (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • The Reading (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • Repose (Berthe Morisot) (Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island)
• Mihály Munkácsy - Last Day of a Condemned Man

[edit] Sculptures

• Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux - The Dance (Louvre, Paris)

[edit] Births

• February 7 - Xavier Martinez, painter
• March 1 - Pietro Canonica, sculptor
• April 6
  • Marc Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, painter and sculptor
  • Louis Raemaekers, painter and cartoonist
• August 13 - Tony Garnier, architect
• October 22 - August Gaul, sculptor
• December 18 - Edward Willis Redfield, landscape painter
• December 31 - Henri Matisse, painter
• date unknown - Kate Carew, caricaturist

[edit] Deaths

• June 10 - Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, painter
• July 10 - Jan Wnęk, carpenter and sculptor (aviation accident)
• August - Baron Leys, painter
• August 8 - Roger Fenton, photographer
• date unknown
  • Johann Friedrich Overbeck, painter
  • Isaiah Rogers, architect
  • George Smith, architect