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Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, usually called Rosa Bonheur (March 16, 1822 - May 25, 1899) was a French realist painter and sculptor. Her father was a landscape painter taught by Henri de Saint-Simon. She was the sister of artist Auguste Bonheur and sculptor Isidore Jules Bonheur and the instructor of Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, with whom she later resided.
She was taught to paint by her father since, as a female, she could not at the time attend art school. She showed a great affinity for animals, and made them her specialty. She was influenced by the English animal painter Edward Landseer. She also studied animal anatomy by visiting slaughterhouses and performing dissections. She prepared sketches by such means, as well as from life, and prepared detailed studies before beginning to work on her paintings and sculptures. http://www.passionforpaint.com/RosaBonheur.html Wild Spirit: The Work of Rosa Bonheur by Jen Longshaw http://bronze-gallery.com/sculptors/artist.cfm?sculptorID=7 Rosa Bonheur at The Bronze Gallery
Rosa Bonheur received a French government commission which lead to her first great success, the Horse Ploughing at the Nivernais, exhibited in 1849. Her most famous work was the monumental Horse Fair, completed in 1855, which measured eight feet high by sixteen feet wide.http://www.albrightknox.org/ArtStart/Bonheur.html The Horse Fair at Albright Knox Gallery. It led to international fame and recognition and that same year she travelled to Scotland, enroute meeting Queen Victoria, who admired her work, and where she completed sketches for later works including A Scottish Raid completed in 1860, and Highland Shepherd. These were anachronistic pieces, as they depicted a way of life in the Scottish highlands that had disappeared a century earlier. Nonetheless, they had enormous appeal to Victorian sensibilities. She was especially popular in England and less so in her native France.
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Albright-Knox Museum - Short biography and image of the small version of Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair that is in the museum's collection.
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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Images of 7 works either by, or relating to, the artist that are in their collection.
National Gallery of Art, England - Image and description of another version of Bonheur's painting titled The Horse Fair.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Image and complete description of Bonheur's Paris Salon work - The Horse Fair.
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The National Museum of Women in the Arts - Image of Bonheur's Sheep by the Sea and a short biography.
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