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Animalière Extraordinaire: the bicentenary of Rosa Bonheur 2

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Admitted to the Legion of Honour in 1865, when she was 71 she became the first woman artist to be promoted to Officer, in recognition of her achievements.

March 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Animalière Extraordinaire: the bicentenary of Rosa Bonheur 1

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After studying the anatomy of animals, she was successful at the Salon, and met Queen Victoria. One of the most famous women artists of the 19th century.

March 9, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Next Year in Paintings: Rosa Bonheur, Piero di Cosimo, Léon Bonnat and others

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Among the 2022 anniversaries are the 500th of the death of Piero di Cosimo, the centenary of the death of Léon Bonnat who taught Sargent and Munch, and the birth of animal painter Rosa Bonheur.

January 2, 2022 General, Life, Painting

From Toulouse to the Pyrenees in paintings

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From the city, through rolling fields and small villages, climbing gradually along valleys to reach rugged mountain passes.

September 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Corydon: 2 Shepherds from staffage to social symbol

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From being staffage in landscapes, shepherds and their flocks became motifs in their own right, with the social realist of Millet, even Henri Regnault.

April 28, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Scottish Highlands and Islands on canvas: 2, visiting artists

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Visits to Scotland became popular among artists in the nineteenth century. Here are wonderful paintings by AW Hunt, Gustave Doré, Rosa Bonheur, Hans Gude, and others.

September 24, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Wet in wet: a brief history of watercolour – 3, 1850-1890

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From Richard Parkes Bonington, through AW Hunt, John Brett, Edward Poynter, Delacroix, Rosa Bonheur, Daumier, Gustave Moreau, and Winslow Homer.

September 10, 2017 General, Painting

Into the Light: Rosa Bonheur, animalière extraordinaire

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A precocious painter who became more famous in Britain than in her native France, she liked painting powerful animals like oxen and lions.

September 9, 2016 General, Painting
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