About Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur was a French painter, sculptor and animalier. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Salon of 1849, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century. She made sculptures in a realist style.
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Awards & Honors
Order of Saint Charles
Cross of Merit for Art and Science (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)
Officer of the Legion of Honour
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Knight of the Order of Leopold
Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
Officer of the Order of Saint James of the Sword
Knight of the Order of Saint James of the Sword
