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Col. William F. Cody Print by Rosa Bonheur

Currency:USD Category:Art / Region - Western Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
Col. William F. Cody Print by Rosa Bonheur
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Col. William F. Cody 1889 Print by Rosa Bonheur, framed, double matted, and under glass, measures 19.5''H x 16''W, Artist Bio: born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, (16 March 1822 - 25 May 1899) was a French animaliŠre, realist artist, and sculptor. As a painter she became famous primarily for two chief works: Ploughing in the Nivernais (in French: Le labourage nivernais, le sombrage), which was first exhibited at the Salon of 1848, and is now in the Mus‚e d'Orsay in Paris, depicts a team of oxen ploughing a field while attended by peasants set against a vast pastoral landscape; and, The Horse Fair (in French: Le march‚ 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 is widely considered to have been the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century.