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Realism · France
Rosa Bonheur
1822–1899 · Monumental realist of animals and labour
RealismAnimalsMonumental scaleRural labour
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Bonheur held a police permit to wear trousers so she could work in slaughterhouses and horse fairs. Her enormous animal canvases made her the most famous woman painter of the century.
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