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Rosa Marie (Rosalie) Bonheur

Rosa Marie (Rosalie) Bonheur (1822 - 1899) was active/lived in United States, France.  Rosa Bonheur is known for Animal and western painting.

The daughter of an impoverished French painter, Raimond Oscar-Marie Bonheur, Rosa Bonheur was a famous 19th-century female artist known for her depiction of horses and for her eccentric lifestyle including dressing like a man and sketching at the Paris slaughterhouse. 

Her work in realist style, eclipsed by modernism, fell into obscurity during much of the 20th century.

Rosa Bonheur spent her life in France but became associated with the American West as a collector of pictures of figures and animals associated with the frontier.   She also had a set of prints of Native Americans depicted by George Catlin, Indian painter, and some of these she copied in later years.   When Buffalo Bill Cody began appearances in Paris in 1889, she became a frequent visitor to his Wild West Show and made numerous sketches, with his permission, of persons and animals in the show.  She also did a full-length portrait of Cody, which she presented to   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 16857 characters.]  Artist bio

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