ROSA BONHEUR (1822 1899) Vache et son veau

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ROSA BONHEUR (1822 - 1899)
Vache et son veau.

Watercolor with charcoal on paper, 1863. 345x486 mm; 13½x19 inches. Signed and dated in watercolor, lower left.

Provenance
Doyle, New York, November 13, 1986, lot 86.
Private collection, Detroit.

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Rosa Bonheur is chiefly renowned for her landscape paintings, which wed sensitivity and exactitude in depictions of the natural world. Spending much of her childhood and adolescence in rural environments throughout France, Bonheur was a diligent student of animal anatomy, often painting and drawing from life. Her work reflects both the realist tradition and elements of romanticism. Two works, Ploughing in the Nivernais and The Horse Fair, held in the collections of the Musée d'Orsay and the Metropolitan Museum of Art respectively, received wide acclaim since their inception, both lending a singular majesty to her livestock subjects.