Events from the year 1870 in art. Events June 28 – Claude Monet marries his mistress and model Camille Doncieux in Paris; Gustave Courbet is a witness. July – Franco-Prussian War breaks out: Monet, Pissarro, Daubigny and the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel flee to London; Cézanne and his mistress, Marie-Hortense Fiquet, leave Paris for L'Estaque (on the French Riviera) where he predominantly paints landscapes. In August, Frédéric Bazille joins a Zouave regiment. In September the Dutch painter Lourens Alma Tadema moves permanently to London where he adopts the name Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Édouard Manet and Louis Edmond Duranty fight a duel at Café Guerbois, Paris. Russian industrialist and patron of the arts Savva Mamontov acquires the Abramtsevo Colony and hosts a group of traditionalist artists there. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems are published, exhumed from Elizabeth Siddal's grave. Daoud Corm goes to Rome to study under Roberto Bompiani at the Accademia di San Luca. Paintings Wilhelm Amberg – Reading from Goethe's Werther (Vorlesung aus Goethes Werther) Frédéric Bazille Countryside near Lex Studio in the rue Condamine La Toilette Cathy Madox Brown – Ford Madox Brown at his Easel Ford Madox Brown – Romeo and Juliet Edward Burne-Jones – Phyllis and Demophoon Paul Cézanne – Paul Alexis reading a manuscript to Émile Zola (1869–70; São Paulo Museum of Art) Edgar Degas The Dancing Class The Orchestra at the Opéra Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ – Demosthenes Practicing Oratory (Démosthène s'exerçant à la parole) Henri Fantin-Latour – A Studio in the Batignolles (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Anselm Feuerbach – The Judgement of Paris (c. 1869–70) Mariano Fortuny – The Spanish Wedding (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya) Jean-Léon Gérôme – Moorish Bath Arthur Hughes – You Cannot Barre Love Oute Jean-Paul Laurens – Pope Formosus and Stephen VI (Le Pape Formose et Étienne VII) Édouard Manet La Brioche (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Effect of Snow on Petit-Montrouge (National Museum Cardiff) John Everett Millais – The Boyhood of Raleigh (Tate Britain, London) Pierre-Auguste Renoir Madame Clémentine Valensi Stora (L'Algérienne) La Promenade Dante Gabriel Rossetti Beata Beatrix (approximate completion date) Sibylla Palmifera Dmitri Sinodi-Popov – An Old Greek James Tissot Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby La Partie carrée Raja Ravi Varma – Shakuntala Sculpture Statue of Abraham Lincoln (New York City) Awards Grand Prix de Rome, painting: Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture: Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas. Grand Prix de Rome, music: Charles Edouard Lefebvre & Henri