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- Rosa Bonheur was a trailblazing French artist whose remarkable talent and groundbreaking achievements left an indelible mark on the art world. Known primarily for her captivating paintings of animals, Bonheur’s work transcended the norms of her time, earning her international acclaim and paving the way for future generations of female artists.
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- She was a wild child who forged her own path. 'The [boarding school] refused to harbour any longer such a noisy creature as I and sent me back home in disgrace...
- She was a hugely successful woman artist in her lifetime. 'Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favour.
- She was a feminist. 'To [her father's] doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.
- She had a doll made in her likeness. Now very hard to track down, a porcelain bisque-style doll modelled on the artist was once hugely popular with Victorian-era girls.
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- The Legacy of Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur (née Marie-Rosalie) was the oldest of four children, two girls and two boys, born to an idealistic artist father, Oscar-Raymond, and a patient piano teacher mother, Sophie. Interestingly, all four of the children grew to be talented and successful artists. The family moved from rural Bordeaux to Paris in 1829 when Rosa was six years ol...
At the age of 14, in 1836, Bonheur's father sent her to study painting and sculpture at the Louvre where she was one of the youngest students. She continued to work in the family studio which she described as "...a confusion of all sorts of odds and ends..." whilst at the same time attending the Louvre where the students copied the Dutch master pai...
In 1851, Bonheur established a relationship with an art dealership, the house of Goupil in Paris. Throughout the next years her painted images would be reproduced by Lefèvre in London and Goupil and Peyrol in Paris, disseminating her name and image, thereby increasing her fame beyond the scope of Salon visitors and clients. The pinnacle of Bonheur'...
Bonheur was extremely happy in her secluded existence in the village of By. She usually began her day at dawn, walking to find a suitable place in the forest where she could work until dusk. She saw fewer other artists than in previous years, except for Chardin who remained a dear friend and often came to sketch. In the evenings, Bonheur and her cl...
Rosa Bonheur became a commercially successful painter at a time and place when few women were successful at pursuing a career in the arts. Europeans of the nineteenth century considered art to be a lady's pastime pursued at her home but due to her father's training and influences, Bonheur approached her artwork as her profession. Bonheur's staunch ...
- French
- March 16, 1822
- Bordeaux, Gironde, France
- May 25, 1899
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]
Rosa Bonheur was a French painter and sculptor famed for the remarkable accuracy and detail of her pictures featuring animals. Toward the end of her career those qualities were accentuated by a lighter palette and the use of a highly polished surface finish.
Despite living, and, as some critics claimed, painting like a man, she became the first female artist to be awarded the Legion of Honour in 1865 and, 30 years later, was the first woman ever to become an Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Apr 18, 2020 · Rosa Bonheur (March 16, 1822–May 25, 1899) was a French painter, best known today for her large scale painting the Horse Fair (1852-1855), which is part of the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was the first woman to receive France’s Cross of the Legion of Honor, in 1894.
