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The Horse Fair. By Rosa Bonheur .. .F rontispiece Rosa Bonheur drives a tandem of Flemish horses through a square of canvas and over the necks of her critics. Caroline H. Dall. As for Paul Potter sfamous Bull, it is no more to be compared with Rosa Bonheur s Horse Fair, than a stuffed and varnished dolphin with a living one. James Russell Lowell. Rosa Bonheur scelebrated Horse Fair offers a striking example of her indefatigableness and conscientiousness in her work. Every horse in that composition was studied separately and several times over. The drawings made for this purpose are almost innumerable. The picture was also studied in groups of animals and finally as a whole. I have in my collections a long series of sketches and lithographic di awings which she used for this canvas. Henri Cain. Study of a Bull. By Rosa Bonheur .. ,F acing 6T his study was made in connection with Rosa Bonheur swell-known canvas entitled Red Oxen of Cantal, and is one of a half dozen analogous studies made for this same picture. Here is the process through which each of these studies passed. In the first place, the animal was modeled in wax, then a plaster mould was made and finally it was cast in bronze, in which form these oxen are still sold to-day in the French art trade. The picture here given was drawn by Rosa Bonheur from the sculpture, by lamp-light, the object being to get the exact shadows, the movements of the living animal rendering this impossible; which offers a notable example of the great care which Rosa Bonheur carried into her art work. Hippolyte Peyrol, Jr. The Sign at No. 49 Rue St. A ntoine, Paris. From a Photograph ....... Facing 6O ur apartment in the Rue St. Antoine was over a private bath establishment. The house still stands. I shall always remember the pork butchers shop that was opposite our windows, because of its sign, a boar in painted wood, stand
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Regarded as the foremost animal painter of her time and the most famous female artist of the nineteenth century, Rosa Bonheur (1822–99) is best known for her works Ploughing in the Nivernais and The Horse Fair. She showed an early talent for drawing people and animals, and quickly determined that art would be her career, visiting the abattoirs of Paris and performing dissections in order to better understand animal anatomy. Through her independent spirit, successful career and unconventional lifestyle she made men and other women aware of what could be achieved. Of the various sources of biographical detail about Bonheur, this 1910 publication is among the most authoritative. Incorporating translated letters between the artist and her friends and family members, it provides invaluable first-hand evidence of her approach to painting and her views on the art world more widely. The work is illustrated throughout with many fine engravings.
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