17 April 2010

Bonheur Horses

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Rosa Bonheur
Le marché aux chevaux
1853-55
Oil on canvas
244.5 x 506.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt (1887)
(87.25)
[1822-1899]
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Rosa Bonheur
Coming from the Fair
Undated
"We believe that "Coming from the Fair" was originally a small sketch which Rosa Bonheur gave to a charity bazaar and which she had never intended should be published. At her request, we bought the plate many year ago when it came onto the market." - L. H. Lefèvre and Son.
[In Stanton]


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Rosa Bonheur
Ponies of the Shetland Islands
Undated