title: 1877 in art
text: # 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)
  
  ### 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)
  