Rosa Bonheur
French painter and sculptor (1822–1899) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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] Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais,[2] first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair (in French: Le marché aux chevaux),[3] 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.[clarification needed][4]
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Born | Marie-Rosalie Bonheur (1822-03-16)16 March 1822 Bordeaux, France |
Died | 25 May 1899(1899-05-25) (aged 77) Thomery, France |
Known for | Painting, sculpture |
Notable work | Ploughing in the Nivernais, The Horse Fair |
Movement | Realism |
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It has been claimed that Bonheur was openly lesbian, as she lived with her partner Nathalie Micas for over 40 years until Micas's death, after which she lived with American painter Anna Elizabeth Klumpke.[5] However, others remark that nothing supports this claim.[6]