The hills are alive with eagles, black grouse, sheep, highland cattle, deer, and even the occasional goat.
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Goya’s crockery salesman, Lhermitte’s Les Halles in Paris, a trio of specialist markets, Rosa Bonheur’s horse fair in Paris, and the last hay market in London.
The Corydon Shepherd, those attending the Nativity, the Good Shepherd, Poussin’s flocks, Millet’s social realism, and Pissarro’s epitaphs.
Paintings of alpine meadows, often used as summer grazing in the transhumance. Men from the lower valleys took their livestock up to the plateau to graze for the summer.
Landscapes by those who visited Scotland, including Rosa Bonheur, Gustave Doré, Hans Gude, and plenty from England.
Don Quixote, Netherlandish Proverbs, grain fields in Ukraine, a flock of sheep in a boat, the Golden Horn, pastels and kabkabs.
Reading the history of agriculture in landscape paintings tells the story of the revolution that has taken place over the last 500 years.
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.
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.
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.
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