1875 | Art
Art
Painting: Boating at Argenteuil and Woman with a Parasol—Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet; Mademoiselle Legrand and Les Grands Boulevards by Pierre-Auguste Renoir; The Little Bridge by Camille Pissarro; Floor-Scrapers by Paris-born painter-art collector Gustave Caillebotte, 27, who met Monet and Renoir last year and will be the chief financial backer, organizer, and promoter of Impressionist exhibitions for the next 6 years, using his family money to buy Impressionist works; The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins; Mountain of the Holy Cross by Thomas Moran; Quatre Bras, 1815 by Elizabeth Thompson; The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet, who dies at Barbizon January 20 at age 60; Jean Baptiste Camille Corot dies at Paris February 22 at age 78.
Sculpture: Germany's 56-foot tall statue Hermanns-Denkmal in the Teutoberger Forest of Lower Saxony is dedicated to celebrate the triumph of the Germanic chieftain Arminius over the Roman legions of Varus about 75 miles away in 9 A.D..
The Hermes produced by the Greek sculptor Praxiteles in the 4th century B.C. turns up in excavations at Olympia.
The Great Chac-Mool reclining limestone figure from the Maya-Toltec civilization of the 10th to 12th centuries A.D. in Yucatán is discovered at the entrance to a temple at Chichén-Itzá (see science, 1904).
Sculptor Jules Carpeaux dies at Courbevoie October 12 at age 48.