Born on March 16, 1822, in Bordeaux, France, Rosa Bonheur was an animal painter and sculptor who greatly inspired female artists around the world and a realist artist.
When she was born, women had few educational opportunities, but her father, a landscape and portrait painter, encouraged her artistic talent and educated her according to family customs.
Bonheur's mother taught her to read and write in a way that allows her to choose and draw different animals for each alphabet to teach her writing.
After completing the art school curriculum, he began to train by imitating drawing book images or sketching plaster models.
From the age of 14, he copied his work at the Louvre Museum, and began to draw in detail by observing animals at slaughterhouses and veterinary schools.
Displayed in 1849, 'Ploughing in the Nivernais' is the first successful work and is now in the Musée d'Orsay.
Her most famous work is 'The Horse Fair', which was completed in 1855 with a height of 8 feet and a width of 6 feet.
In honor of this famous painting, French empress Eugénie awarded the Legion d'Honneur Medal in 1865. Rosa Bonheur was the first female artist to receive the Legion d'Honneur Medal.
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