1877 in art

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.
 * 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.

Paintings

 * Lawrence Alma-Tadema
 * Flora: Spring in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese
 * 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)
 * Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
 * The Eternal Feminine (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
 * 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)
 * 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)