It's beautiful when parents encourage their children. Who knows what I might've become with a little guidance and encouragement.. 😅 The dirt gets to me more than anything in this piece. I agree it looks very rich and I want to interact with it - smell it, squish it between my fingers, feel it beneath my feet. Beautifully done.

I wish they would have included some biographical material.Born in 1822, her whole family were artists.She struck out on her own, winning prizes and medals. Queen Victoria received her in a private viewing of this painting, and the Empress of France awarded her the Legion of Honor award in 1844, when she was just 22. She got special permision from the local police to wear pants so that she could paint in fields and visit slaughterhouses (to study animal anatomy). She kept wild animals on her farm, even a lion. She stated that her "special work attire" (pants and smocks) was for painting, and not intended to imply anything else. People have assumed that she was a male impersonator, a lesbian, or placed her in other categories that cannot be substantiated, though she never married and left her fortune to her friend, the American Anna Klumpke.

Rosa Bonheur is an inspirational woman if only i can be like her @.@

love her ♥

magnifique

Fathers are good..I'm sure she used photographs for reference.

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It seems highly unlikely Bonheur used a camera for this painting. In 1849 that would have meant a daguerreotype or a calotype, equipment that was not easily portable, and that required the subject to remain completely still for an extended period of time. She either had very well-trained oxen or she did what all artists had done, honed her skill and her visual memory.