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 Londonhttps://chronicle250.com/1877#catalogue 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 BorgheseFlora Spring in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, 1877 – Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema – WikiArt.org 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)Enlarge Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) The Eternal Feminine (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)The Eternal Feminine (L'Éternel Féminin) (Getty Museum) 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 Forgothttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-world-forgetting-by-the-world-forgot-sunday-afternoon-in-kensington-gardens-18899 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 Feasthttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/an-egyptian-feast-23353 Édouard Manet Nana Plum Brandy Woman in Evening Dress (Guggenheim Museum, New York City) Charles Mengin – Sapphohttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sappho-205579 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 Inkermanhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-return-from-inkerman-78390 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 Jackethttps://worcester.emuseum.com/objects/3045/arrangement-in-black-and-brown-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)

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