Quotes by Rosa Bonheur

About Rosa Bonheur:


Rosa Bonheur is now in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, depicts a team of oxen ploughing a field while attended by peasants set against a vast pastoral landscape; and The Horse Fair (in French: Le marché aux chevaux), which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City. Bonheur is widely considered to have been the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century.

Author Bio


  • NameRosa Bonheur
  • DescriptionFrench painter and sculptor
  • BornMarch 16, 1822
  • DiedMay 25, 1899
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPainter; Sculptor
  • WorksLabourage Nivernais; ;
  • AwardsKnight Of The Legion Of Honour; Officer Of The Legion Of Honour