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Rosa Bonheur
Painting, Visual Artist
1822 – 1899
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Who was Rosa Bonheur?
Rosa Bonheur, born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, was a French animalière, realist artist, and sculptor. As a painter she became famous primarily for two chief works: Ploughing in the Nivernais, which was first exhibited at the Salon of 1848, and is now in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, depicts a team of oxen ploughing a field while attended by peasants set against a vast pastoral landscape; and, The Horse Fair
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- Born
- Mar 16, 1822
Bordeaux - Siblings
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Lived in
- Bordeaux
- Died
- May 25, 1899
Thomery - Resting place
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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