Plowing the nivernais rosa bonheur biography
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Plowing the nivernais rosa bonheur biography
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ROSA BONHEUR
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Rarely during the nineteenth century did the artistic career and recognition of a woman eclipse that of her male counterparts.
History recognizes few females from this period in the position of artistic authority, but Rosa Bonheur established herself as the foremost �animalier,� or animal painter, linked with landscape painting and the Realist tradition.
Through contacts, exhibitions, and reproductions disseminated worldwide, Rosa Bonheur�s work was well known throughout Europe and America. Her unusual ways attracted considerable public attention and she harnessed this interest throughout her life and established a niche, commercially and artistically, for her work, becoming one of the most original figures of the 19th century.
Marie-Rosalie Bonheur was born March 16th, in Bordeaux, France. She was one of four children, each trained as an artis