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Rosa Bonheur

1822 - 1899

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Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculptures in a realist style. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair (in French: Le marché aux chevaux), which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rosa Bonheur is the 29th most popular sculptor, the 933rd most popular biography from France (down from 930th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Sculptor.

Rosa Bonheur is most famous for her paintings of animals, especially horses.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Rosa Bonheur ranks 29 out of 258. Before her are Luca della Robbia, Andrea Pisano, Alexander Calder, Alessandro Algardi, Giovanni Pisano, and Alexander Archipenko. After her are Claus Sluter, Antoine Bourdelle, Ossip Zadkine, Gustav Vigeland, Leochares, and Jean Tinguely.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Rosa Bonheur ranks 17. Before her are Alexander Mackenzie, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, Étienne Lenoir, Charles Hermite, Edmond de Goncourt, and Sa'id of Egypt. After her are Adelaide of Austria, Midhat Pasha, Joseph Bertrand, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, Robert Luther, and Ignacy Łukasiewicz. Among people deceased in 1899, Rosa Bonheur ranks 7. Before her are Johann Strauss II, Alfred Sisley, Robert Bunsen, Leo von Caprivi, Félix Faure, and Paul Reuter. After her are Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, Ernest Chausson, Sophus Lie, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, Horatio Alger, and Giovanni Segantini.

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In France

Among people born in France, Rosa Bonheur ranks 933 out of 6,770. Before her are Françoise Marie de Bourbon (1677), Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646), Claude Lelouch (1937), François Clouet (1510), René Clément (1913), and Léon Jouhaux (1879). After her are Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902), Charles Garnier (1825), Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (1802), Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800), Francis, Count of Vendôme (1470), and Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011).

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Among SCULPTORS In France

Among sculptors born in France, Rosa Bonheur ranks 7. Before her are Auguste Rodin (1840), Camille Claudel (1864), Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834), Louise Bourgeois (1911), Giambologna (1529), and Marie Tussaud (1761). After her are Antoine Bourdelle (1861), Paul Landowski (1875), Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741), François Rude (1784), Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716), and Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714).

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