Today marks the 200th birthday of French painter Rosa Bonheur, whose illustrious career inspired a new generation of women artists. Rosa Bonheur paints a flock of sheep on canvas in today’s cartoon.
Rosa Bonheur was born in Bordeaux, France, on this day in 1822. Her father, a small landscape painter, helped in her early artistic training. Bonheur diligently followed the evolution of creative traditions through years of careful study and sketching before immortalizing them on canvas, even though her ambitions for a career in the arts were unusual for a woman at the time.
Bonheur’s reputation as an animal painter and sculptor increased in the 1840s, with several of her works exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon from 1841 to 1853. Scholars believe that her career as a professional artist began with an 1849 showing of ‘Plowing in Nivernais’. a government commission currently housed in France’s Musee Nationale du Chateau de Fontainebleau. Bonheur’s painting “The Horse Fair,” depicting a horse market in Paris, gained international renown in 1853. His best-known work, this painting is still on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
In 1865, the French Empress Eugénie awarded the Legion of Honor, one of the country’s highest honours, to Rosa Bonheur in recognition of her famous work of art.
Monarchs of the Forest, one of Rosa Bonheur’s works, sold for nearly $200,000 at auction in 2008.
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