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Source Description
Rosa Bonheur was the most successful female artist of the19th century. She specialized in paintings of animals. Bonheur's art was underpinned by detailed, analytical study, and she is known to have visited slaughterhouses and dissected animals to acquire an understanding of anatomy. In the 1850s, she also kept a collection of horses, sheep, and goats in her Paris studio for study purposes. Later, she kept an even larger menagerie, including lions, at her château in By at the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, where she moved in 1860 and lived for the rest of her life ("Rosa Bonheur," Bordeaux, 1997).
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Document identity
localId
30809
label
Andalusian Bulls
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
30809
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Andalusian Bulls
description
Rosa Bonheur was the most successful female artist of the19th century. She specialized in paintings of animals. Bonheur's art was underpinned by detailed, analytical study, and she is known to have visited slaughterhouses and dissected animals to acquire an understanding of anatomy. In the 1850s, she also kept a collection of horses, sheep, and goats in her Paris studio for study purposes. Later, she kept an even larger menagerie, including lions, at her château in By at the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, where she moved in 1860 and lived for the rest of her life ("Rosa Bonheur," Bordeaux, 1997).
provenance
Acquired by William T. Walters before 1879 [mode of acquisition unknown]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 571.
date
1867
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
drawings (visual works)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
33.8
height
46.2
dimensionsRaw
H: 13 5/16 × W: 18 3/16 in. (33.8 × 46.2 cm)Framed: H: 23 7/16 × W: 27 3/4 × D: 1 5/16 in. (59.5 × 70.5 × 3.3 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
""R. Bonheur/1867"" in graphite at lower right
recto; ""anroches"" in graphite
lower right
rectoFramer's label on the reverse: ""Exposit ... Bronzes Fantaisies / M[illegible]/ Encadrement ... Dessins / Pap[ier] [C]ouleurs
Crayon
Pastels / Du ... / Brevetes de L.L.M.M/ l'Empereur de l'Imperatrice""
med
ink wash with white heightening over graphite underdrawing on slightly textured, moderately thick, blue laid paper
creator_ids
7564
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
615
2069
3818
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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