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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 Impressionists" arranged by Gustave Caillebotte at 6 rue Le Peletier in Paris.[1]
- 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 London[2]
- 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.[3]
- 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[4]
- 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
- Frederic Edwin Church
- 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
- 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 Feast[7]
- Édouard Manet
- John Everett Millais
- Claude Monet – Gare Saint Lazare
- Camille Pissarro
- Arthur Quartley – Early Moonlight Naragansett Bay
- Briton Rivière
- Lazarus
- Sympathy
- John Roddam Spencer Stanhope – Love and the Maiden
- James Tissot
- 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)
- William Frederick Yeames – Amy Robsart
Sculpture
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)[8]
- 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
- "Impressionist Exhibitions in Paris (1874–86)". Encyclopedia of Art History. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
- https://chronicle250.com/1877#catalogue
- Gosse, Edmund (1894). "The New Sculpture: 1879–1894". The Art Journal. 56. London: 138–42, 199–203, 277–82, 306–11.
- Flora Spring in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, 1877 – Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema – WikiArt.org
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- The Eternal Feminine (L'Éternel Féminin) (Getty Museum)
- https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/an-egyptian-feast-23353
- Haftmann, Werner (1966). Painting In The Twentieth Century. London: Praeger Publishers. p. 409. ISBN 978-0-27588-730-8.