1877 in art

Events

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Works

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

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

Paintings

• Frederick Arthur Bridgman - The Funeral Procession of a Mummy on the Nile
• Ford Madox Brown - Cromwell, Protector of the Vaudois
• Edward Burne-Jones - The Beguiling of Merlin
• Gustave Caillebotte - Paris Street; Rainy Day ("Rue de Paris; Temps de pluie")
• Paul Cézanne - Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Frederic Edwin Church - El Rio de Luz
• 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
• Édouard Manet
  • Nana
  • Woman in Evening Dress (Guggenheim Museum, New York City)
• 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
• Julius von Blaas - Fox Hunt in the Campagna

Sculpture

• Auguste Rodin - The Age of Bronze

Births

• January 2 - Slava Raškaj, Croatian watercolourist (d. 1906)
• January 26 - Kees van Dongen, painter (d. 1968)
• April 15 - Georg Kolbe, sculptor (d. 1947)
• June 3 - Raoul Dufy, Fauvist painter (d. 1953)
• July 2 - Rinaldo Cuneo, American painter (d. 1939)
• August 4 - Laura Knight, English Impressionist painter (d.1970).
• December 27 - Adolf Kašpar, Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1934)

Deaths

• March 31 - Jean Baptiste Madou, painter and lithographer (b. 1796)
• June 4 - William Edward Frost, English painter (b. 1810)
• August 5 - Philipp Foltz, painter (b. 1793)
• September 16 - Marcin Zaleski, Polish painter (b. 1796)
• September 17 - William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer (b. 1800)
• November 12 - Henry Peters Gray, portrait painter (b. 1819)
• December 18 - Philipp Veit, painter (b. 1819)
• December 31 - Gustave Courbet, painter (b. 1819)