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 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.
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.^[2]
September 6 – The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England, is opened.

Works

Gustave Caillebotte, *Paris Street, Rainy Day*, 1877, Art Institute of Chicago.

Charles-Gustave Housez *La petite fille perdue dans Paris*, 1877

Paintings

Lawrence Alma-Tadema
- Flora: Spring in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese^[3]
- 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)^[4]
- Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
- The Eternal Feminine (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)^[5]
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)
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)^[6]
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.
^ 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
^ Enlarge
^ The Eternal Feminine (L'Éternel Féminin) (Getty Museum)
^ Haftmann, Werner (1966). Painting In The Twentieth Century. London: Praeger Publishers. p. 409. ISBN 978-0-27588-730-8.

[1] "Impressionist Exhibitions in Paris (1874–86)". Encyclopedia of Art History. Retrieved 2015-06-17.

[2] Gosse, Edmund (1894). "The New Sculpture: 1879–1894". The Art Journal. 56. London: 138–42, 199–203, 277–82, 306–11.

[3] Flora Spring in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, 1877 – Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema – WikiArt.org

[4] Enlarge

[5] The Eternal Feminine (L'Éternel Féminin) (Getty Museum)

[6] Haftmann, Werner (1966). Painting In The Twentieth Century. London: Praeger Publishers. p. 409. ISBN 978-0-27588-730-8.

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