1799 in art

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Events from the year 1799 in art.

Events

  • March 19 – Sculptor Jean-Jacques Castex leaves Cairo for Upper Egypt in the group led by Pierre Girard. He returns from the expedition with many drawings.
  • James Barry becomes the first and (for 200 years) only member to be expelled from the British Royal Society of Arts, soon after the appearance of his belligerent Letter to the Dilettanti Society.
  • Caspar David Friedrich suffers his first depressive interlude.
  • Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes publishes Éléments de perspective pratique: à l'usage des artistes, suivis de réflexions et conseils à un élève sur la peinture, et particulièrement sur le genre du paysage (Elements of practical perspective, for the use of artists; followed by reflections and advice to a student on painting, particularly on the genre of landscape).

Works

Francisco Goya, Ya van desplumados ("And so they go away featherless"), print 20 in Los Caprichos

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