Rosa Bonheur
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Rosa Bonheur was a French painter, sculptor and animalier. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Salon of 1849, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse
Bonheur, c. 1895–99
The Horse Fair (1852–55; Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Ploughing in the Nivernais, Musée d'Orsay
Edouard Louis Dubufe, Portrait of Rosa Bonheur 1857. Symbolic of her work as an Animalière, the bull was painted by Bonheur herself.
Nathalie Micas
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Jeanne Sarah Nathalie Micas was a French painter and inventor of an efficient brake for trains. She lived with artist Rosa Bonheur for 40 years.
Micas (left) and Bonheur (right), 1882
The braking system developed by Nathalie Micas was tested at the Château de By in Thomery in 1861 and patented in 1862.