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At the Theater (The Melodrama) (c. 1860-64) - Honoré Daumier

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1864 is a year of the 1860s.

Art and culture

• Notes from Underground (1864) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Dictionnaire érotique moderne by Alfred Delvau
• Monsieur Lecoq
• The 1864 edition of Webster's Dictionary published the first definition of pornography as ""licentious painting employed to decorate the walls of rooms sacred to bacchanalian orgies, examples of which exist in Pompeii."
• Gustave Moreau, Oedipus and the Sphinx; painting
  • Oedipus and the Sphinx, one of his first symbolist paintings, was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1864.
• Charles Baudelaire meets Félicien Rops
• Krischan mit der Piepe by Wilhelm Busch

Births

• January 1 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946)
• January 24 - Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and feminist leader (d. 1936)
• April 21 - Max Weber, German sociologist (d. 1920)
• June 11 - Richard Strauss, German composer (d. 1949)
• November 24 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)

Deaths

• May 19 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)