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 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
• 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
• * Paris Street; Rainy Day
• * Les périssoires
• Paul Cézanne
• *Bathers at Rest
• *Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair
• *The Eternal Feminine
• 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
• Thomas Eakins – William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River
• 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
• 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
• James McNeill Whistler
• * Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room
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• 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
• January 26 – Kees van Dongen, Dutch-born painter
• February 19 – Gabriele Münter, German painter
• April 15 – Georg Kolbe, German sculptor
• June 3 – Raoul Dufy, French Fauvist painter
• July 2 – Rinaldo Cuneo, American painter
• August 4 – Laura Knight, English Impressionist painter
• August 7 – Leslie Hunter, born George Hunter, Scottish painter
• August 18 – Herbert Barnard John Everett, English marine artist
• December 27 – Adolf Kašpar, Czech painter and illustrator

Deaths

• January 9 – Alexander Brullov, Russian painter, teacher, and architect
• February 13 – Auguste Hüssener, German engraver and miniature painter
• March 31 – Jean Baptiste Madou, painter and lithographer
• June 4 – William Edward Frost, English painter
• August 5 – Philipp Foltz, painter
• September 16 – Marcin Zaleski, Polish painter
• September 17 – William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer
• November 12 – Henry Peters Gray, portrait painter
• December 18 – Philipp Veit, painter
• December 31 – Gustave Courbet, painter