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Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculptures in a realist style . [ 1 ]
The painting was probably inspired by the artist's trip to the Pyrenees, where she did several studies in 1850, or to the United Kingdom.It depicts a pasture where a cow looks upon five calves, who are separated from her by an artificial barrier made of wood, stone and debris.
The Horse Fair is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Rosa Bonheur, begun in 1852 and first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1853. Bonheur added some finishing touches in 1855. The large work measures 96.25 in × 199.5 in (244.5 cm × 506.7 cm). [1]
The life of Rosa Bonheur, a trailblazing feminist and artist who rose to fame in 19th century France, will be played by Melanie Laurent in a sprawling period movie directed by Fabienne Berthaud.
Rosa Bonheur made the painting by commission of the French government [3] [7] for 3000 francs; [8] it was shown in the Salon in 1849, [9] where it won her a First Medal. [10] N. D'Anvers repeats an apparently well-known story, that it was inspired by the opening scene of George Sand's novel La Mare au Diable (1846), which features oxen ploughing a landscape with the author's commentary, "a ...
Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) Leon Bonnat (1833–1922) Jean de Botton (1898—1978) François Boucher (1703–1770) Henri Bouchet-Doumenq (1834–1884) Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) William Bouguereau (1825–1905) Gustave Boulanger (1824–1888) Charles Boulanger de Boisfremont (1773-1838) Valentin de Boulogne (1591–1632) Abel-Dominique Boyé ...
The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media ... Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), painter; Marie Adrien Persac (1823 ...
John Brown (c. 1752 – 1787), Scottish artist and draftsman; John Crawford Brown (1805–1867), Scottish landscape painter; Lucy Madox Brown (1843–1894), English artist, author and model; Francis Focer Brown (1891–1971), American painter; Joan Brown (1938–1990), American figurative painter; Judith Brown (1931–1992), American sculptor ...