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)

References

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Years of the 19th century in art
1870s in art