Events from the year 1872 in art. Events February 20 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City. June – American-born painter James McNeill Whistler exhibits Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother, painted the previous year, at the 104th Royal Academy summer exhibition in London after the curator Sir William Boxall threatens to resign from the R.A. if it is rejected. November 13 (07:35) (probable date) – Claude Monet begins painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) as viewed from his hotel room at Le Havre. November – Edward Lear acquires his cat Foss. date unknown William De Morgan sets up an art pottery in Chelsea, London. The first "Wallace fountains", to the design of sculptor Charles-Auguste Lebourg, are installed in Paris. Lise Tréhot last models for Renoir. Works Peter Nicolai Arbo – The Wild Hunt of Odin Arnold Böcklin – Self-portrait with Death playing the fiddle Caspar Buberl – Fulton Memorial (New York City) Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Hope The White Rocks Gustave Doré – illustrations to London: A Pilgrimage (published) Frank Duveneck – The Whistling Boy (Cincinnati Art Museum) William Powell Frith – The Fair Toxophilites John Gast – American Progress Jean-Léon Gérôme – Pollice Verso ("Thumbs Down") Ivan Kramskoi Christ in the Desert Old Man with a crutch Henri Fantin-Latour - The Corner of the Table Édouard Manet Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Berthe Morisot with a Fan (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Berthe Morisot (Private collection) Le chemin de fer ("The Railroad") (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) Racecourse in the Bois de Boulogne (Private collection) Claude Monet Effet de Brouillard Impression, Sunrise Springtime Thomas Moran – The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (first version) Berthe Morisot The Cradle (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) On the Balcony Vasily Perov Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky Portrait of Vladimir Dal Illarion Pryanishnikov – Empties Pierre-Auguste Renoir Claude Monet Reading Parisian Women in Algerian Costume (The Harem) Le Pont-Neuf Woman with Parasol Seated in the Garden Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Beata Beatrix (replica, commissioned by William Graham) Emil Jakob Schindler – The Steamer station on the Danube opposite Kaisermühlen Alfred Sisley Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garonne Footbridge at Argenteuil James Tissot – Bad News Wilhelm Trübner – Auf dem Kanapee ("On the Sofa") (Nationalgalerie, Berlin) Frederick Walker – The Harbour of Refuge James McNeill Whistler – Arrangement in Gray: Portrait of the Painter Mårten Eskil Winge –