Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

US$ 582.00

Percheron horses wheel and rear along the tree-lined boulevard of the Paris horse market, where Bonheur sketched twice a week for a year and a half, beginning at twenty-nine. Nearly five metres wide in the original, it made her famous across Europe and America. Its long, low, panoramic shape suits a wide wall unusually well.

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Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) was the most celebrated woman artist of the nineteenth century and the first to receive the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. She held official police permission to wear trousers so she could work in horse markets and slaughterhouses, studied animal anatomy at first hand, and lived openly with her partner Nathalie Micas for more than forty years. Her animals were admired precisely because they were observed rather than imagined.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 54 × 26 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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