. International studio. the magnitudeof the tasks she set herself far outdistanced thoseof her predecessor. In Rosa Bonheurs time,fan and miniature painting was considered thelimit ol womens capacities and as much as it wasdesirable they should undertake. Close after the medal followed a presentationfrom the State in the form of a Sevres vase and anorder lor a picture showing a plough scene, for inthose days a pictures subject was all was born the famous Labourage Niver-nais, for many years in the Luxembourg, butwhich has now its place in the Louvre and whichwas one of the main
. International studio. the magnitudeof the tasks she set herself far outdistanced thoseof her predecessor. In Rosa Bonheurs time,fan and miniature painting was considered thelimit ol womens capacities and as much as it wasdesirable they should undertake. Close after the medal followed a presentationfrom the State in the form of a Sevres vase and anorder lor a picture showing a plough scene, for inthose days a pictures subject was all was born the famous Labourage Niver-nais, for many years in the Luxembourg, butwhich has now its place in the Louvre and whichwas one of the main items in the commemorativedisplay at the Salon des Artistes Francais thisyear, celebrating the centenary of the artistsbirth. She contrived to finish this work for theSalon of 1849 and in time for her father to see itjust before his death. Rosa Bonheur was twenty-seven when shepainted this picture, a feat unique in the annalsof teminine artistic achievement. Nor has anypainter, before or after, more truly expressed the. CERFS calm of the animal soul. At this ROSA BONHEUR .... time her enthusiastic critics wouldcall her the modern Paul Potter, and give her morecredit than they did to Delacroix or Barye. Afterher lathers death Rosa continued to provide forher stepmother, brothers and sister, and in orderto spare her brother Isidore from competition shegave up sculpture. In 1850 she made a trip toGermany where the doctors had advised her ailingfriend Natalie to take the waters, and here, aswherever else she happened to be, her pencil wasconstantly busy. About this time she was sent lor by theMinister for the Interior, Marquis de Moray, whoinformed her that the new monarchical govern-ment wished in its turn to show its appreciationof her talent. Would she bring her portfolios sothat the subject for a picture could be discussedbetween them? At that particular time Rosa Bonheur was veryfull of The Horse Fair, and, though intenseljRepublican at heart, her work came before heropinions
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