1863
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Henri Robin and a Specter (1863) by Eugène Thiébault
"Jacques Collin de Plancy (1793-1881) followed the tradition of many previous demonologists of cataloguing demons by name and title of nobility, as it happened with grimoires like Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and The Lesser Key of Solomon. In 1818, his best known work, Dictionnaire Infernal, was published. In 1863, sixty-nine illustrations by Louis Le Breton were added that made it famous: imaginative drawings concerning the appearance of certain demons."--Sholem Stein |

Charles Baudelaire by Étienne Carjat (ca. 1863)

James Whistler's painting Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl (1862) caused controversy when exhibited in London and, later, at the Salon des Refusés in Paris. The painting epitomizes his theory that art should essentially be concerned with the beautiful arrangement of colors in harmony, not with the accurate portrayal of the natural world.

Bird's Nest and Ferns (1863) by Fidelia Bridges
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Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863) by Édouard Manet
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1863 (MDCCCLXIII) was the 63rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1860s.
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Art and culture
- Paris Salon of 1863
- Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Édouard Manet
- The Birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel
- Salon des Refusés
- Illustrations by Gustave Doré to Les Contes de Perrault (1697)
- Disasters of War by Francisco de Goya: although produced in the 1810s, these prints are now published for the first time, 35 years after Goya's death.
- "Darwin among the Machines" by Samuel Butler
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Books
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Fiction
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Non-fiction
- The Painter of Modern Life, a series of essays by Charles Baudelaire
- William Wells Brown - The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius and His Achievements
- Francis James Child - Observations on the Language of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Ernest Renan - The Life of Jesus
- Dictionnaire Infernal by Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy, illustrated version
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Births
- January 8 - Paul Scheerbart, German author and artist (d. 1915)
- January 14 - Richard F. Outcault, American comic strip scriptwriter (The Yellow Kid) (d. 1928)
- April 3 - Henry van de Velde, painter, architect and designer (d. 1957)
- March 3 - Arthur Machen, novelist and short story writer (d. 1947)
- March 12 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer, war hero, and politician (d. 1938)
- June 1 - Hugo Münsterberg, a German-American psychologist (The Photoplay) (d. 1916)
- September 8 - W. W. Jacobs, short story writer (d. 1943)
- October 12 - Martin van Maële (d. 1926)
- November 11 - Paul Signac, neo-Impressionist painter (d. 1935)
- December 12 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (d. 1944)
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Deaths
- August 13 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798)
- September 17 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)
- September 20 - Jakob Grimm, German folklorist (b. 1785)
- December 24 - William Makepeace Thackeray, British novelist (b. 1811)
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