Events from the year 1876 in art. Events April – Impressionist exhibition at the house of Paul Durand-Ruel, 11 rue Peletier, in Paris. May 16 – German American "Napoleon of crime" Adam Worth steals Gainsborough's Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire from Agnew's gallery in Old Bond Street, London three weeks after its sale at Christie's for 10,000 guineas, the highest price ever paid for a painting at auction at this time. It is not recovered until 1901. Henrietta Montalba exhibits at the Royal Academy for the first time. Kathleen Newton moves into the London home of James Tissot, becoming his mistress and model. Paintings Lawrence Alma-Tadema An Audience at Agrippa's Ninety-Four Degrees in the Shade Thomas Armstrong – Woman with Lilies Edward Mitchell Bannister – Under the Oaks Albert Fitch Bellows – Sunday in Devonshire Gustave Caillebotte Le déjeuner ("Lunch") Le Pont de l'Europe ("The Europe Bridge") Portraits in the country Young Man at the Piano (Martial Caillebotte) Paul Cézanne – Vase of Flowers Ernest Christophe – La Comédie humaine - Le Masque (marble; Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Georges Clairin – Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt Gustave Courbet – Entree d'un Gave Edgar Degas L'Absinthe (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Duchesa di Montejasi with her Daughters, Elena and Camilla (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Paul Dubois – My Children Thomas Eakins – The Chess Players Winslow Homer – Breezing Up ("A Fair Wind") James Wilson Alexander MacDonald – Statue of Fitz-Greene Halleck (bronze, New York City) John MacWhirter – Spindrift Édouard Manet – Before the Mirror (Guggenheim Museum, New York City) Anton Mauve – Morning Ride on the Beach John Everett Millais – Lord Ronald Gower Claude Monet Coin du jardin à Montgeron (Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg) La Japonaise (Camille Monet in Japanese Costume) Gustave Moreau – Salome Dancing before Herod Pierre-Auguste Renoir A Girl with a Watering Can (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) Bal du moulin de la Galette ("Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette") (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) The Swing In the Garden (Pushkin Museum, Moscow) Ilya Repin – Sadko Emma Sandys – Fiammetta Henryk Siemiradzki – Nero's Torches William James Stillman – English Wild Flowers James Tissot A Passing Storm The Thames Viktor Vasnetsov – Moving House Sculptures Thomas Ball Emancipation Memorial Statue of Daniel Webster Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi Bartholdi Fountain Statue of the Marquis de Lafayette Charles E. Cassell - Confederate Monument Carl Conrads - The American Volunteer