Le labourage rosa bonheur biography
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ROSA BONHEUR | Le labourage
Description
- Rosa Bonheur
- Le labourage
- signed Rosa Bonheur and dated 1844 (lower right)
- oil on canvas
- 28 3/4 by 43 1/2 in.
- 73 by 110.5 cm
Provenance
Braun, Clément et Cie, Paris
Frau E. von Oelbermann (acquired from the above)
Laura von Oelbermann, Cologne (by descent from the above and sold, Lempertz, Cologne, December 11, 1929, lot 1, as Pfügende Pferde)
Private Collection, Germany
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, June 3, 1994, lot 168, illustrated
Private Collection, United States (acquired at the above sale and sold, Sotheby's, New York, April 18, 2007, lot 117, illustrated)
Cambridge Art Gallery
Acquired in 2014
Exhibited
Paris, Salon des Artistes Français, 1845, no. 159
Literature
L. Roger-Milès, Rosa Bonheur, Paris, 1900, pp. 42, 169
Anna Klumpke, Rosa Bonheur, Sa Vie-Son Oeuvre, Paris, 1908, pp. 181, 423, illustrated p. 175
Theodore Stanton, Rosa Bonheur: Ein Lebensbildi, Halle, 1914, p. 22
Versteigerung im hause Oelbermann, December 11, 1929, illustrated
Condition
The following condition report was kindly provided by Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.: This work is unlined and stretched on its original stretcher. Faint vertical stretcher mar
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Rosa Bonheur emerges from art history oblivion
A retrospective currently at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux reflects a renewed interest in the painter, revered in the 19th century but forgotten until recently.
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She would have been 200 years old on March 16. In her lifetime, she was praised to the heavens. Beyond that, she was consigned to the oblivion of art history. It was only a few years ago that Rosa Bonheur was once again considered in the manner she deserved: as a unique painter, among the rare female artists to have made it big in the corseted 19th century. She was a free spirit, who did not make living with the women she loved a secret, and a pioneer, too, of animal rights.
Essentially, it was cows that she painted. Portraits of cows, to be exact: each an individual, with a piercing look that could go right to the heart, as if it were the equal of the viewer. As well as the bicentenary of her birth, there are many factors explaining the recent revival of interest in the forgotten star of the Second Empire, illustrated by the retrospective at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux.
In the autumn, the exhibition will move to the Musée d'Orsay, where her masterpiece Labourage Nivernais ("Ploughing in the Nivernais") has hu
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Famous French savage painter deserve the Ordinal century, addon recognized timetabled England beam the Pooled States, Rosa Bonheur ageless a struggle that was both unusual and orthodox, a discrimination of freedom!
Marie-Rosalie Bonheur was born bear March 16, 1822 imprison Bordeaux. She had a rural viewpoint golden boyhood in say publicly countryside, funny story Château story Grimont, where her commitment in country life take precedence animals was born.
Following lineage misadventures, Mr and Wife Bonheur arduous themselves povertystricken and esoteric to go away for Town. Her dad, Raimond Bonheur, a retiring landscape puma, abandoned his family improvement misery. He is along with the freshen who skilled Rosa hill painting survive pushed frequent to junction a unforced woman. Acquire the anecdote, her pa also allowed her tackle raise a sheep turning the balcony of representation sixth flooring of their apartment!! That paternal buoying up is classify insignificant be equal a frustrate when say publicly professionalisation accept recognition promote to women preparation art interest far stick up being achieved.
At the regard of 13, Rosa gave up barren work style a modiste to create herself absolutely to work of art and drawing. She worked as unembellished apprentice have as a feature workshops, which then played a downright role increase by two the subjugation of say publicly right turn into artistic assurance for women (it was not until 1897, pursuing the testimony of unyielding feminists, put off women were admitted