Bonheur, Rosa

Bonheur, Rosa
born March 16, 1822, Bordeaux, France
died May 25, 1899, Melun

French animal painter.

She was trained by her father, an art teacher, and began exhibiting regularly at the Paris Salon in 1841. Her unsentimental paintings of lions, tigers, horses, and other animals became very popular; The Horse Fair (1853) gained her an international reputation. A colourful personality, she dressed as a man to study horses at the actual Horse Fair in Paris, receiving formal permission from the police to do so. In 1865 she became the first woman to receive the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.

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▪ French painter
original name  Marie-Rosalie Bonheur 
born March 16, 1822, Bordeaux, France
died May 25, 1899, Château de By, near Fontainebleau
 French painter and sculptor famed for the remarkable accuracy and detail of her portrayals of animals. Toward the end of her career these qualities were accentuated by a lighter palette and the use of a highly polished surface finish.

      Bonheur was trained by her father, Raymond Bonheur, an art teacher. She soon showed a talent for sketching live animals, and she began studying their movements and forms on farms and in the city's stockyards, gaining a superior knowledge of animal anatomy. Finding that women's clothing restricted her movement during these outings, Bonheur began wearing trousers, a practice she continued for the rest of her life. She was a regular Salon exhibitor from 1841 to 1855. The Horse Fair (1853), considered by many to be her masterpiece, was acquired in 1887 by Cornelius Vanderbilt for a record sum and became one of her most widely reproduced works. Bonheur was unconventional for her time. In addition to wearing trousers, she smoked cigarettes and for a time kept a lioness. In 1865 she became the first woman to receive the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.

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