Paintings

• The Harbour at Bordeaux by Édouard Manet (E.G. Bührle collection, Zurich)
• The Barricade (Civil War) by Édouard Manet (Szepmuveseti Muzeum , Budapest)

Deaths

• February 20 - Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter

See also:

• 1870 in art
• other events of 1871
• 1872 in art
• list of years in art.