Editing 1877 in art

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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 [[Impressionist]]s" arranged by [[Gustave Caillebotte]] at 6 rue Le Peletier in Paris.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Impressionist Exhibitions in Paris (1874–86)|url=http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/impressionist-exhibitions-paris.htm|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Art History|accessdate=2015-06-17}}</ref> 
* [[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 ''[http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/edward-burne-jones/the-mirror-of-venus-1875 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]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Gosse|first=Edmund|authorlink=Edmund Gosse|year=1894|title=The New Sculpture: 1879–1894|journal=[[The Art Journal]]|location=London|volume=56|pages=138–42, 199–203, 277–82, 306–11}}</ref>
* [[September 6]] – The [[Walker Art Gallery]] in [[Liverpool]], England, is opened.

==Works==
[[File:Gustave Caillebotte - Paris Street; Rainy Day - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|[[Gustave Caillebotte]], ''[[Paris Street, Rainy Day]]'', 1877, [[Art Institute of Chicago]].]]
[[File:Charles-Gustave Housez La petite fille perdue dans Paris 1877.jpg|thumb|[[Charles-Gustave Housez]] ''La petite fille perdue dans Paris'', 1877]]

===Paintings===
* [[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]]
** ''Flora: Spring in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese''<ref>[http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/sir-lawrence-alma-tadema/flora-spring-in-the-gardens-of-the-villa-borghese-1877 Flora Spring in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, 1877 – Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema – WikiArt.org<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
** ''[[:File:A Sculptors Model.jpg|A Sculptor's Model]]''
* [[Jules Bastien-Lepage]] – ''[[:File:Jules Bastien-Lepage At Harvest Time.jpg|At Harvest Time]]'' (''Tempo di vendemmia'')
* [[Robert Bateman (artist)|Robert Bateman]] – ''[[:File:Robert Bateman - The Pool of Bethesda - Google Art Project.jpg|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]]
** ''[[:File:'On the Pont de l’Europe', oil on canvas painting by Gustave Caillebotte, 1876-77, Kimbell Art Museum.jpg|On the Pont de l’Europe]]'' ([[Kimbell Art Museum]])
** ''[[Paris Street; Rainy Day]]'' ("Rue de Paris; Temps de pluie")
** ''[[:File:G. Caillebotte - Les Périssoires (1877).jpg|Les périssoires]]'' ("Canoes on the Yerres") ([[Milwaukee Art Museum]])
* [[Paul Cézanne]] 
**''[[Bathers at Rest]]'' (The [[Barnes Foundation]], [[Philadelphia]])<ref>[https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/5003/Bathers-at-Rest-(Baigneurs-au-repos)/visually-similar Enlarge<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
**''[[Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair]]'' ([[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]])
**''[[The Eternal Feminine (Cézanne)|The Eternal Feminine]]'' (The [[J. Paul Getty Museum]], [[Los Angeles]])<ref>[http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/810/paul-cezanne-the-eternal-feminine-l%27eternel-feminin-french-about-1877/#ab537f2da5b6ab216bb1f913d6a0085d80b066af The Eternal Feminine (L'Éternel Féminin) (Getty Museum)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Frederic Edwin Church]]
** ''[[The Aegean Sea]]''
** ''[[El Rio de Luz]]''
* [[Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville]] – ''[[:File:Alphonse de Neuville - The Attack at Dawn - Walters 3740.jpg|L'attaque au crépuscule]]'' ("The attack at dawn"; [[Walters Art Museum]], [[Baltimore]])
* [[Thomas Eakins]] – ''[[William Rush and His Model|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 (Fantin-Latour, Lyon)|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''
** ''[[:File:Music Lesson by Lord Frederic Leighton.jpg|The Music Lesson]]''
* [[Édouard Manet]]
** ''[[Nana (painting)|Nana]]''
** ''[[Woman in Evening Dress]]'' ([[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|Guggenheim Museum]], [[New York City]])
* [[John Everett Millais]]
** ''[[:File:Effie Deans, 1877.jpg|Effie Deans]]''
** ''[[:File:Thomas Carlyle by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt.jpg|Thomas Carlyle]]''
* [[Claude Monet]] – ''[[:File:Claude Monet 004.jpg|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)]]''
** ''[[:File:James Tissot - Hide and Seek.jpg|Hide and Seek]]''
** ''[[Portsmouth Dockyard (Tissot)|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)
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131216190818/http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch/DetailedResults.fwx?collection=whistler&searchTerm=46361 Nocturne]'' (c. 1875–77, [[Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery]], [[Glasgow]])
* [[William Frederick Yeames]] – ''[[:File:Amyrobsart.jpg|Amy Robsart]]''

===Sculpture===
{{see also|Category:1877 sculptures}}
* [[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 in art|1906]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Kees van Dongen]], Dutch-born [[painter]] (died [[1968 in art|1968]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Gabriele Münter]], German painter (died [[1962 in art|1962]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Werner|last=Haftmann|title=Painting In The Twentieth Century|location=London|publisher=Praeger Publishers|year=1966|page=409|isbn=978-0-27588-730-8}}</ref>
* [[April 15]] – [[Georg Kolbe]], German sculptor (died [[1947 in art|1947]])
* [[June 3]] – [[Raoul Dufy]], French Fauvist painter (died [[1953 in art|1953]])
* [[July 2]] – [[Rinaldo Cuneo]], American painter (died [[1939 in art|1939]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Laura Knight]], [[English people|English]] [[Impressionist]] painter (died [[1970 in art|1970]])
* [[August 7]] – [[Leslie Hunter]], born George Hunter, [[Scottish people|Scottish]] painter (died [[1931 in art|1931]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Herbert Barnard John Everett]], English marine artist (died [[1949 in art|1949]])
* [[December 27]] – [[Adolf Kašpar]], Czech painter and [[illustrator]] (died [[1934 in art|1934]])

==Deaths==
* [[January 9]] – [[Alexander Brullov]], Russian painter, teacher, and architect (born [[1798 in art|1798]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Auguste Hüssener]], German engraver and miniature painter (born [[1789 in art|1789]])
* [[March 31]] – [[Jean Baptiste Madou]], painter and lithographer (born [[1796 in art|1796]])
* [[June 4]] – [[William Edward Frost]], English painter (born [[1810 in art|1810]])
* [[August 5]] – [[Philipp Foltz]], painter (born [[1793 in art|1793]])
* [[September 16]] – [[Marcin Zaleski]], [[Poland|Polish]] painter (born [[1796 in art|1796]])
* [[September 17]] – [[William Fox Talbot]], pioneer photographer (born [[1800 in art|1800]])
* [[November 12]] – [[Henry Peters Gray]], portrait painter (born [[1819 in art|1819]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Philipp Veit]], painter (born [[1819 in art|1819]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Gustave Courbet]], painter (born [[1819 in art|1819]])

==References==
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