Plowing in the Nivernais (Labourages nivernais)
Artist
Rosa Bonheur
(French, 1822 – 1899)
Date1850
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions52 1/2 x 102 in. (133.4 x 259.1 cm)
Frame: 71 3/4 × 122 3/4 × 8 in. (182.2 × 311.8 × 20.3 cm)
Frame: 71 3/4 × 122 3/4 × 8 in. (182.2 × 311.8 × 20.3 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN433
Rosa Bonheur was one of the most successful French painters of the 19th century and the most famous woman artist of her day. She specialized in realistic depictions of animals, a well-established art category in France, though her work became most popular with collectors in Great Britain and America. The Ringling’s painting is a copy, made by Bonheur herself, of the work which established her reputation (now in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris), a French government commission which won First Medal at the Salon of 1849.
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