Landscape with Cattle
Catalogue
- Year
- 1820
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 9 1/8 x 10 3/16 in. (23.1 x 25.8cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Rosa Bonheur
Artist
Painting
Rosa Bonheur was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculptures in a realist style. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Salon of 1849, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century.
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Record
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- Rosa Bonheur
- Year
- 1820
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 9 1/8 x 10 3/16 in. (23.1 x 25.8cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1820-T003864
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified