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. Works 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 –