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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]
At the Salon of 1841 she exhibited two paintings, Goats and Sheep and Rabbits Nibbling Carrots (1840). Her sketching visits to those public places that were largely the domain of men, as well as her work in the studio, prompted her by at least the early 1850s to eschew traditional female clothing for the trousers and loose blouse of a male peasant.
Oct 18, 2022 · The first time Bonheur exhibited a work she was just 19 years old. She presented Two Rabbits, made in 1841. The simple, sweet tableau shows two rabbits, one of which is nibbling at a carrot.
Jun 26, 2024 · Rosa Bonheur, Two Rabbits, 1840, Musée des Beaux Arts, Bordeaux, France. Two Rabbits was the first of numerous paintings Rosa Bonheur submitted to the Paris Salon. She was only 19 years old when the jury accepted this painting in 1841.
At the age of 19, she first appeared in Salon, the annual exhibition of the Royal Academy, with the painting Two charming groups of a goat, sheep, and rabbits (1841), which was a very significant step. Her next success was a large oil painting Plowing in Nivernais (1849), commissioned by the French government.
- French
- March 16, 1822
- Bordeaux, France
- May 25, 1899
The exhibition covers the sweep of Bonheur’s long career, including works as diverse as a painting of two rabbits nibbling on a carrot that she showed at the Paris Salon when she was 19; a portrait of “Buffalo Bill” Cody on horseback, whom she befriended when he performed his “Wild West” show in Paris during the Universal Exposition ...
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Aug 22, 2024 · The oldest of four children, Rosa Bonheur was born in 1822 in Bordeaux, France to a family of artists, her father Oscar-Raymond, a painter, and mother Sophie Marquis, a piano teacher.
