Rosa Bonheur- A French Artist

Google Doodle Celebrates French Artist Rosa Bonheur's 200th Birthday

Rosa Bonheur, born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, was a French artist, mostly a painter of animals but also a sculptor, in a realist style'.

Young talent. Born in Bordeaux in 1822, Bonheur received her training from her father, a painter, who encouraged his young daughter's artistic talents and independence

osa Bonheur, original name Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, (born March 16, 1822, Bordeaux, France—died May 25, 1899, Château de By, near Fontainebleau), French painter and sculptor famed for the remarkable accuracy and detail of her pictures featuring animals.

It is hard to trace the stages of Morisot's training and to tell the exact influence of her teachers because she was never pleased with her work and she destroyed nearly all of the artworks she produced before 1869. Her first teacher, Geoffroy-Alphonse Chocarne, taught her the basics of drawing. After several months, Morisot began to take classes taught by Guichard. During this period, she drew mostly ancient classical figures. When Morisot expressed her interests in plein-air painting, Guichard sent her to follow Corot and Oudinot. Painting outdoors, she used watercolors which are easy to carry. At that time, Morisot also became interested in pastel

The Horse Fair is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Rosa Bonheur, begun in 1852 and first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1853.

Realism was a 19th century art movement in which people, places, and/or things are represented realistically Modernism - a period of experimental developments in art, music, and literature, from around the 1860s to the 1970s. The Horse Fair depicts a horse sale that women generally were not permitted to attend.

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