# 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.
* 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")
** Les périssoires ("Canoes 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
* 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
* 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
* Édouard Manet
** Nana
** Woman in Evening Dress (Guggenheim Museum, New York City)
* John Everett Millais
** Effie Deans
** Thomas Carlyle
* Claude Monet – Gare Saint Lazare
* Camille Pissarro
** The 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
* 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
** 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)