Rosa Bonheur (1822 - 1899)
1822-03-16Bordeaux, France1899-05-24Thomery, FranceFrance
Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur, born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculpture in a realist style. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century.
Date and place of birt: | 16 march 1822, Bordeaux, France |
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Date and place of death: | 24 may 1899, Thomery, France |
Nationality: | France |
Period of activity: | XIX century |
Specialization: | Animalist, Artist, Painter |
Genre: | Animalistic |
Art style: | Realism, Naturalism |