Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur, born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur,was a French artist, an animalièreand sculptor, known for her artistic realism. Her most well-known paintings are Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now at Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City. Bonheur is widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth16 March 1822
CityBordeaux, France
CountryFrance