Rosa Bonheur, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rosa Bonheur

French painter and sculptor

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1822

Place of Birth: Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 25-May-1899

Profession: painter, sculptor

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Rosa Bonheur, born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, (16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist, an animalière (painter of animals) and sculptor, known for her artistic realism.
Her best-known paintings are Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now at 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.
Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter during the nineteenth century.



Alternative names	Édouard Dubufe
Description	French painter son of Claude Marie Dubufe
Date of birth/death	2 April 1819	10 August 1883
Location of birth/death	Paris	Versailles
Work location	Italy (1852); Paris (1839–1879); London (1848–1851)
Authority control	: Q274298 VIAF: 39469518 ISNI: 0000 0001 1759 0690 ULAN: 500006727 LCCN: nr90013116 WGA: DUBUFE, Edouard WorldCat



Alternative names	Marie Rosalie Bonheur
Description	French painter and sculptress
Date of birth/death	16 March 1822	25 May 1899
Location of birth/death	Bordeaux	Thomery
Authority control	: Q241732 VIAF: 59091154 ISNI: 0000 0000 6634 9265 ULAN: 500014964 LCCN: n80070626 NAID: 25341233 WorldCat