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Bonheur, Rosa

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A celebrated French animal painter, born at Bordeaux; brought up in poverty from ill-fortune; taught by her father; exhibited when she was 19; her best-known works are the "Horse Fair" and the "Hay Harvest in Auvergne," "Ploughing with Oxen," considered her masterpiece; through the Empress Eugenie she received the Cross of the Legion of Honour; during the siege of Paris her studio was spared by order of the Crown Prince; b . 1822.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Bonheur, Rosa'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/bonheur-rosa.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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