The Horse Fair
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The Horse Fair is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Rosa Bonheur, begun in 1852 and first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1853. The artist added some finishing touches in 1855. The large work measures 96.25 in × 199.5 in.
The Horse Fair
Abandoned sketch of the Horse Market, charcoal, black chalk and white chalk on canvas, 250 x 450 cm
The 1855 reduced version, 120 cm × 254.6 cm (47.2 in × 100.2 in), in the National Gallery, London
Watercolour from 1867, 24 in × 50 in (61 cm × 127 cm); sold at Sotheby's in 2007
Rosa Bonheur
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Rosa Bonheur was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculptures in a realist style. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 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.
Rosa 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.