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Rosa Bonheur

1822 - 1899

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Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculptures in a realist style. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair (in French: Le marché aux chevaux), which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rosa Bonheur has received more than 1,273,849 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Rosa Bonheur is the 34th most popular sculptor (up from 43rd in 2019), the 1,083rd most popular biography from France (up from 1,233rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Sculptor.

Rosa Bonheur is most famous for her paintings of animals, especially horses.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Rosa Bonheur ranks 34 out of 189Before her are Jean-Antoine Houdon, Ossip Zadkine, Alexander Archipenko, Jean Tinguely, Alessandro Algardi, and Louise Bourgeois. After her are Naum Gabo, Claes Oldenburg, Józef Gosławski, Claus Sluter, Gustav Vigeland, and Jacopo della Quercia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Rosa Bonheur ranks 20Before her are Edmond de Goncourt, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, Adelaide of Austria, Sa'id of Egypt, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, and Olga Nikolaevna of Russia. After her are Red Cloud, Henri Murger, Juan, Count of Montizón, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, and Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Among people deceased in 1899, Rosa Bonheur ranks 11Before her are Félix Faure, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, Ernest Chausson, Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, Paul Reuter, and Sophus Lie. After her are Giovanni Segantini, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, Nubar Pasha, Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Ludwig Büchner.

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In France

Among people born in France, Rosa Bonheur ranks 1,083 out of 6,011Before her are Georges Picquart (1854), André Bazin (1918), Jean Gerson (1363), Alice Prin (1901), Jeanne Baret (1740), and Henry II, Count of Champagne (1166). After her are Pierre Schaeffer (1910), Charles Trenet (1913), Émile Bernard (1868), Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1945), Bruno Cremer (1929), and Jules Renard (1864).

Among SCULPTORS In France

Among sculptors born in France, Rosa Bonheur ranks 10Before her are Giambologna (1529), Marie Tussaud (1761), Paul Landowski (1875), Antoine Bourdelle (1861), Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741), and Louise Bourgeois (1911). After her are François Rude (1784), Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716), Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714), David d'Angers (1788), Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876), and François Girardon (1628).