Study for The Horse Fair
Gift of USY and T Industries, Inc.
Catalogue
- Year
- 1845
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 43.2 × 87 cm (17 × 34 1/2 in.); Framed: 69.3 × 111.8 × 10.2 cm (27 1/4 × 44 × 4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- 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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- Rosa Bonheur
- Year
- 1845
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 43.2 × 87 cm (17 × 34 1/2 in.); Framed: 69.3 × 111.8 × 10.2 cm (27 1/4 × 44 × 4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1845-007300
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified