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"title": "The Farm at the Entrance of the Wood",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1978",
"description": "Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).",
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"description": "(Georges Petit Galerie, Paris, France, May 30, 1900, Artist's estate sale (lot 884), sold to Homer H. Johnson)",
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"did_you_know": "Bonheur's artistic work led her to pastures, fairs, and even slaughterhouses\u2014unlikely places for a proper 19th- century lady. Long dresses were too cumbersome for her rugged lifestyle; in order to wear trousers on the job she had to seek permission from the local government.",
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"description": "One of the most celebrated female artists of the 19th century, Bonheur established an international reputation by exhibiting at the Paris Salons. Empress Eug\u200b\u00e9\u200bnie, wife of Napoleon III, visited her studio to personally confer the Legion of Honor, making Bonheur the first woman to receive the award. This painting may have been inspired by the rustic houses in the vicinity of the Forest of Fontainebleau, where Bonheur lived for more than 40 years.",
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"citation": "Roger-Mile\u0300s, L. Rosa Bonheur, sa vie--son \u0153uvre; ouvrage orne\u0301 de 22 gravures hors texte et de 54 gravures dans le texte. Paris, France: Socie\u0301te\u0301 d'e\u0301dition artistique, 1900.",
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"citation": "Klumpke, Anna. Rosa Bonheur; sa vie, son \u0153uvre. Paris, France: E. Flammarion, 1909.",
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"citation": "Stanton, Theodore. Reminiscences of Rosa Bonheur. New York, NY: Hacker Art Books, 1976.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"The Year in Review for 1978.\" The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXVI, no. 1 (January, 1979): 2-47.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 43, no. 30",
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"citation": "Shriver, Rosalia. Rosa Bonheur: With a Checklist of Works in American Collections. Philadelphia, PA: Art Alliance Press, 1982.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 56; Reproduced: p. 71",
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"citation": "Miquel, Pierre. Le paysage franc\u0327ais au XIXe sie\u0300cle, 1840-1900: l'e\u0301cole de la nature. E\u0301cole De La Nature. Maurs-la-Jolie, France: Editions de la Martinelle, 1985.",
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"citation": "Chong,Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 15",
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"citation": "Klumpke, Anna. Rosa Bonheur: The Artist's (Auto)Biography. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997.",
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"citation": "Bonheur, Rosa. Rosa Bonheur: All Nature's Children. New York, NY: Dahesh Museum, 1998.",
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"citation": "D'Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Four; European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.",
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"biography": "The eldest of four children, Rosa Bonheur received drawing lessons in the studio of her father, Raymond Bonheur (1796-1849). From early on she pre-ferred to draw animals and went to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris to study and draw them. She first exhibited at the Salon of 1841. The family moved to the suburbs where Bonheur had an even more easy access to animals, and she visited slaughterhouses in order to study their anatomy. Her Salon submissions became increasingly successful, but her first major breakthrough occurred with Plowing in the Nivernais (Salon 1849, Mus\u00e9e National du Ch\u00e2teau, Fontainebleau). Based on Sand's rustic novel La mare au Diable (1846), the work represents a heroic depiction of rural life that Bonheur had elevated to the standards of a history painting. Her international reputation was established with The Horse Fair (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), presented at the Salon of 1853. She celebrated her final triumph at the 1855 Salon with Haymaking in the Auvergne (R. W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, La.), after which she increasingly withdrew from public life. She mostly worked on her many commissions and shared her life with Nathalie Micas. The couple traveled extensively, and in 1859 Bonheur bought the Ch\u00e2teau de By in Thomery near Fontainebleau, where they lived in relative solitude. Bonheur had also little contact with the nearby group of Barbizon painters. The widespread appreciation for her work did not diminish, however, and in 1865 Empress Eug\u00e9nie visited her studio in order to award her a knighthood in the Legion of Honor, making her the first woman to carry that title. Nathalie Micas died in 1889, to Bonheur's great distress, but she soon befriended the American painter Anna Klumpke (1856-1942), with whom she would eventually live and who became her biographer. Even though Bonheur was appreciated in France, her principal collectors were in England and the United States. According to Albert Wolff, she was \"one of the three most highly priced French painters in America . . . the other two [were] Jules Breton [q.v.] and Meissonier [q.v.]\"1 Bonheur was one of the foremost animaliers, or animal painters, of her time and was also active as a sculptor. Her painting style changed little throughout her career, and her work found little esteem with more pro-gressive artists and critics. However, her unorthodox life as an independent and successful woman in a male-dominated society has recently generated great interest, especially among feminist art historians.\r\n1. Le Figaro (11 July 1890), 1.",
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