Zaidan Gallery
 Rosa
(Marie-Rosalie) Bonheur (1822 - 1899) |
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Untitled, Oil on Canvas (Glued to Board) Size 14.5 x 9" Signature, Close Up 1, Close Up 2
Sales Price C$25,000
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Rarely during the nineteenth century did the artistic career and recognition of a woman eclipse that of her male counterparts. History recognizes few females from this period in the position of artistic authority, but Rosa Bonheur established herself as the foremost “animalier,” or animal painter, linked with landscape painting and the Realist tradition.
Rosa was a French realist painter and sculptor. Her father was a landscape painter taught by Henri de Saint-Simon. She was the sister of artist Auguste Bonheur and sculptor Isidore Jules Bonheur and the instructor of Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, with whom she later resided. She
was taught to paint by her father, and showed great affinity for
animals. She made them her specialty. She was influenced by the
English animal painter Sir Edwin Henry Landseer. She also studied
animal anatomy and prepared sketches and detailed studies before
beginning to work on her paintings and sculptures.
Rosa was considered the most famous woman artist of her time, and was represented by several private art galleries. She is perhaps most famous today because she was known for wearing men's clothing, and is now seen as an early feminist. She lived for fifty years with her female companion Nathalie Micas at her country estate near Fontainebleau. After Micas' death, she taught and lived with the American painter Anna Elizabeth Klumpke. She died at the age of 77. Many of her paintings, which had not been shown publicly, were sold at auction in Paris in 1900. Source: angeloilpainting.com
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide: Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, Landscape with Deer, 1887 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 6 works by Rosa Bonheur Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) Keep paging forward for several works on paper by Marie Rosalie (Rosa) Bonheur Rosa Bonheur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 5 drawings online Rosa Bonheur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Several paintings online Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Commentary on Ploughing in Nevers Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris, 20 works by Rosa Bonheur online National Gallery, London, UK, The Horse Fair Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France, Labourage nivernais ; le sombrage, 1849 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, The Horse Fair, ca.1852 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Oxen Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain, 6 works online Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable), Lion Cubs Brighton & Hove Museums, England Brooklyn Museum, New York City Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Connecticut, Brotherly Love (with Auguste Bonheur) Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Crocker Art Museum, California, Landscape Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire Dahesh Museum, New York City (Zoomable), 2 works online Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull, England, The Lion at Home, 1881 Haggin Museum, California, Gathering for the Hunt Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire, Work Horse Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi Rosa Bonheur in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, Royalty at Home, Palette Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. National Museums Liverpool, UK, The Return from the Mill Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2 works by Rosa Bonheur online Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey Ringling Museum of Art, Florida, Plowing in Nivernais (Labourages Nivernais), 1850 State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen, Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search" The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas The Hepworth Wakefield, England The Wallace Collection, London, UK The Walters Art Museum, Maryland Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, American Mustangs Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, Florida - Provenance Research, A Study of Lions National Art Databases and Museum Inventories: Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Pictures from Image Archives: Rosa Bonheur in the Art Renewal Center Masterscan feature: The Horse Fair Masterscan feature: Horse and Rider Rosa Bonheur at The Athenaeum 21 works online by Bonheur Wikimedia Commons Image Database World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula) Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) New York Public Library Digital Gallery Sources: artcyclopedia.com |
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