Rosa Bonheur was a French artist, mostly a painter of animals (animalière) but also a sculptor, in a realist style.
A French government commission prompted Bonheur’s first incredible achievement, Plowing in the Nivernais, showed in 1849 and presently in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
Her most well-known work, the amazing The Horse Fair, was finished in 1855 and estimated eight feet high by sixteen feet wide.
It portrays the pony market held in Paris, on the tree-lined lane de l’Hôpital, close to the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, which is noticeable in the painting’s experience.
There is a decreased rendition in the National Gallery in London.
This work prompted worldwide popularity and acknowledgment; that very year she ventured out to Scotland and met Queen Victoria in transit, who appreciated Bonheur’s work.
Rosa Bonheur Parents: Meet Raymond Bonheur and Sophie Bonheur
Raymond Bonheur and Sophie Bonheur are the biological parents of Raymond Bonheur.
Her mom was Sophie Bonheur (born Marquis), a piano educator; she kicked the bucket when Rosa was eleven.
Her dad was Oscar-Raymond Bonheur, a scene and picture painter who supported his little girl’s artistic talents.
The Bonheur family adhered to Saint-Simonianism, a Christian-socialist sect that promoted the education of women alongside men.
