Rosa Bonheur

1822–1899 · Realism

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.

35 paintings

• Cattle at Rest on a Hillside in the Alps (1885)
• Study for The Horse Fair (c. 1850)
• The Farm at the Entrance of the Wood (1860–80)
• Wild Boars in the Snow (c. 1872–77)
• Horse fair (1853)
• Studies of Cows, Hens, Roosters, a Goose and a Sheep
• Tête de lion relevée (1900)
• Highland cattle (1876)
• Deer and fawn in a wood (1893)
• Cerf (1900)
• A Pyrenean Shepherd and his Flock (1887)
• The King watches (1887)
• A Sioux Encampment (1900)
• Col. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) (1889)
• Venado (1889)
• Wild Cat (1850)
• Weaning the Calves (1879)
• Ram
• The Horse Fair (1853)
• Sheep by the Sea (1865)
• Highland Raid (1860)
• Relay Hunting (1887)
• A Sheep at Rest
• Sheep on a Pasture
• The Horse Fair (1852–55)
• Weaning the Calves (1879)
• A Limier Briquet Hound (ca. 1856)
• Ploughing in the Nivernais (1849)
• Étude de chien de berger
• La Foulaison du blé en Camargue (1864)
• Huit études de lion et lionne et trois études de pattes
• Barbaro after the Hunt (1858)
• Forest with a Buck (1875)
• Landscape with Cattle
• Two Horses (1893)