Biography (1822 - 1899)
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Rosa Bonheur ~ Brief Biography (1822 — 1899)
BONHEUR, Marie-Rosalie called Rosa.
Rosa Bonheur French animal painter widely acclaimed in her lifetime. Her best pictures, often of horses, combine vigorous action with accurate detail and are frequently huge, one depicting 10 lifesize horses. For her most important work, Horse Fair (1885) she disguised herself as a man to obtain correct 'local colour'.
Source: The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists (World of Art)
Rosa Bonheur ~ Biography II
Hailed by her contemporaries as the most popular animal-painter, male or female, of the nineteenth century, the French artist Rosa Bonheur (1822 - 99) lived to see her name become a household word. In a century that did its best to keep women "in their place," Bonheur, like George Sand--to whom she was often compared--defined herself outside of the social and legal codes of her time. To the horror and bewilderment of many, she earned her own money, managed her own property, wore trousers, hunted, smoked, and lived in retreat with female companions in a little chateau near Fountainebleau named The Domain of Perfect Affection.
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The Duel
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Italian Greyhound
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The Horse Fair
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A Limier Briquet Hound
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Sheep by the Sea
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Mounted Indians Carrying Spears
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Calves
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Stag on Alert, In Wooded Clearing
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The Pasture
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Landscape
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Oxen Pulling a Cart
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Roe deer
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Sheep in a Mountainous Landscape
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The Return from the Harvest
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Stag and Doe in a Landscape
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Cows Resting
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Stag in an Autumn Landscape
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Lion and Prey (also known as The Kill)
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Four Boars in a Landscape
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