1877 in art

Events from the year 1877 in art. == Events == January – Claude Monet begins a series of paintings of the Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris. April – Third "Exhibition of Impressionists" arranged by Gustave Caillebotte at 6 rue Le Peletier in Paris. May 1 – The Grosvenor Gallery in London opens to the public with an exhibition of paintings created over the past featuring Edward Burne-Jones's Days of Creation, The Beguiling of Merlin and The Mirror of Venus and James McNeill Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket. On July 2, English art critic John Ruskin's review in Fors Clavigera praises Burne-Jones but of Whistler says he "never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face" provoking a charge of libel. May 7 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1877 opens at Burlington House in London Summer – Frederic Leighton exhibits his bronze Athlete Wrestling with a Python at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, inaugurating a renaissance in contemporary British sculpture which becomes known as the New Sculpture. September 6 – The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England, is opened. == Works == === Paintings === Lawrence Alma-Tadema Flora: Spring in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese A Sculptor's Model Jules Bastien-Lepage – At Harvest Time (Tempo di vendemmia) Robert Bateman – The Pool of Bethesda Frederick Arthur Bridgman – The Funeral Procession of a Mummy on the Nile Ford Madox Brown – Cromwell, Protector of the Vaudois Gustave Caillebotte On the Pont de l’Europe (Kimbell Art Museum) Paris Street; Rainy Day ("Rue de Paris; Temps de pluie") Skiffs ("Boating on the Yerres") (Milwaukee Art Museum) Paul Cézanne Bathers at Rest (The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia) Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) The Eternal Feminine (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles) Frederic Edwin Church The Aegean Sea El Rio de Luz Evelyn De Morgan – Cadmus and Harmonia Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville – L'attaque au crépuscule ("The attack at dawn"; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore) Thomas Eakins – William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River (original version; Philadelphia Museum of Art) Albert Edelfelt – Queen Blanca Henri Fantin-Latour – The Reading Carl Fredrik Hill – The Cemetery John Callcott Horsley – The World Forgetting, By the World Forgot Charles-Gustave Housez – La petite fille perdue dans Paris Kobayashi Kiyochika – The Sumida River by Night Frederic Leighton Mrs Henry Evans Gordon The Music Lesson Edwin Long – An Egyptian Feast Édouard Manet Nana Plum Brandy Woman in Evening Dress (Guggenheim Museum, New York City) Charles Mengin – Sappho John Everett Millais Effie Deans Thomas Carlyle Claude Monet – Gare Saint Lazare Camille Pissarro Côte des Bœufs at L'Hermitage The Garden at Pontoise Arthur Quartley – Early Moonlight Naragansett Bay Briton Rivière Lazarus Sympathy John Roddam Spencer Stanhope – Love and the Maiden Elizabeth Thompson – The Return from Inkerman James Tissot The Gallery of H.M.S. 'Calcutta' (Portsmouth) Hide and Seek Portsmouth Dockyard Julius von Blaas – Fox Hunt in the Campagna Anton von Werner – Die Proklamation des Deutschen Kaiserreiches ("The Proclamation of the German Empire", original version; destroyed in World War II) James McNeill Whistler The Fur Jacket Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (decorative scheme) Nocturne (c. 1875–77, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow) William Frederick Yeames – Amy Robsart === Sculpture === Frederic Leighton – Athlete Wrestling with a Python Auguste Rodin – The Age of Bronze The Defenders of Fort Moultrie == Births == January 2 – Slava Raškaj, Croatian watercolourist (died 1906) January 26 – Kees van Dongen, Dutch-born painter (died 1968) February 19 – Gabriele Münter, German painter (died 1962) April 15 – Georg Kolbe, German sculptor (died 1947) June 3 – Raoul Dufy, French Fauvist painter (died 1953) July 2 – Rinaldo Cuneo, American painter (died 1939) August 4 – Laura Knight, English Impressionist painter (died 1970) August 7 – Leslie Hunter, born George Hunter, Scottish painter (died 1931) August 18 – Herbert Barnard John Everett, English marine artist (died 1949) December 27 – Adolf Kašpar, Czech painter and illustrator (died 1934) == Deaths == January 9 – Alexander Brullov, Russian painter, teacher, and architect (born 1798) February 13 – Auguste Hüssener, German engraver and miniature painter (born 1789) March 31 – Jean Baptiste Madou, painter and lithographer (born 1796) June 4 – William Edward Frost, English painter (born 1810) August 5 – Philipp Foltz, painter (born 1793) September 16 – Marcin Zaleski, Polish painter (born 1796) September 17 – William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer (born 1800) November 12 – Henry Peters Gray, portrait painter (born 1819) December 18 – Philipp Veit, painter (born 1819) December 31 – Gustave Courbet, painter (born 1819) == References ==