. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. es which she firstplaced on the walls were a group ofgoats and sheep, and The Two Eab-bits. Pictures of larger animals fol-lowed. Her horses and cattle pieceswere celebrated in the annual exhibi-tions. In 1848, she exhibited a bulland sheep in bronze, modeled by her-self, and received from Horace Vernefcthe fiist-class medal, with a costlySevres vase. Her compositions werehighly finished and elaborate. One,uj)on which she had bestowed greatpains, and which ranks at the head ofher performances, the Lahourage Ni
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. es which she firstplaced on the walls were a group ofgoats and sheep, and The Two Eab-bits. Pictures of larger animals fol-lowed. Her horses and cattle pieceswere celebrated in the annual exhibi-tions. In 1848, she exhibited a bulland sheep in bronze, modeled by her-self, and received from Horace Vernefcthe fiist-class medal, with a costlySevres vase. Her compositions werehighly finished and elaborate. One,uj)on which she had bestowed greatpains, and which ranks at the head ofher performances, the Lahourage Ni-vernaiSjWas completed in 1849; and,becoming the property of the govern-ment was placed in the national collec-tion of the works of French Artistsin the gallery of the grand sjjirited painting XeMarclie aux Chevaux^ or The HorseFair, widely known by its exhibitionin England and America, and byvarious engravings, was a leadingattraction in the Gallery of FrenchPictures formed in London, in was bought by M. Gambart, theFrench priutseller, in London, for eight.
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