ROSA BONHEUR

The first woman artist to be awarded the Légion d'honneur, she left an abundant body of work, which bears witness to an exceptional vision of the living world. Fascinated by animals, she had gathered around her, at the Château de By, in the forest of Fontainebleau, a veritable menagerie: cows, sheep, goats, horses, dogs, cats, chickens, ducks and various wild animals, deer, wild boar, fallow deer, isards, mouflons, a couple of monkeys and even lions for a few years. These are the animals that we find in these paintings, at the heart o...[Read more]