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The life of Rosa Bonheur
As part of LGBT+ History Month, I’m delighted to celebrate the life and work of Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899). Bonheur was one of the most celebrated artists in France in the 19th century. Sudley House has three wonderful examples of their renowned animal paintings, and the Walker has a superb sculpture. Bonheur was born a woman and throughout their adult life had committed relationships with women. They were famous for their male style of dress and adoption of masculine character traits, positioning themselves in a traditionally male role professionally and romantically. Their story is therefore significant for women’s, lesbian and trans histories. Now hailed as a feminist, their international success helped pave the way for women artists across the world to take up work as respected professionals.
In their relationships, Bonheur referred to themselves as ‘the husband’ and assumed the traditionally male role of ‘breadwinner’. It is clear that they understood their relationships with their consecutive, long-term partners (Nathalie Micas and Anna Klumpk
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Rosa Bonheur
French painter and sculptor (1822–1899)
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.[1] Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais,[2] 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),[3] 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 of the nineteenth century.[clarification needed][4]
It has been claimed that Bonheur was openly lesbian, as she lived with her partner Nathalie Micas for over 40 years until Micas's death, after which she lived with American painter Anna Elizabeth Klumpke.[5] However, others remark that nothing supports this claim.[6]
Early development and artistic training
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Rosa Bonheur
The Artist's (Auto)biography
ByAnna Klumpke
Translated byGretchen van Slyke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.23193
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The intimate biography of French painter Rosa Bonheur by her companion Anna Klumpke
Hailed by her contemporaries as the most popular animal-painter, male or female, of the nineteenth century, the French artist Rosa Bonheur (1822-99) lived to see her name become a household word. In a century that did its best to keep women "in their place," Bonheur, like George Sand--to whom she was often compared--defined herself outside of the social and legal codes of her time. To the horror and bewilderment of many, she earned her own money, managed her own property, wore trousers, hunted, smoked, and lived in retreat with female companions in a little chateau near Fountainebleau named The Domain of Perfect Affection.
Rosa Bonheur: The Artist's (Auto)Biography brings this extraordinary woman to life in a unique blend of biograph
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