# @gettymuseum on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2022-06-26T07:07:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

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With the stroke of her brush, French artist Rosa Bonheur forged a path for women and artists as a whole during the 19th century.

Bonheur earned international fame as an animalier, or painter of animals; her most famous piece, "The Horse Fair," can be seen at metmuseum. She was the first woman to receive the French Legion of Honour and earned enough money from her art to be financially independent.

She broke boundaries by participating in social freedoms normally reserved for men, like hunting, smoking, and wearing men's clothing (which she had to obtain a special permit for). Bonheur maintained close relationships with French painter Nathalie Micas and American painter Anna Klumpke, and her innovative spirit inspired them both as artists.

Despite her unconventional lifestyle and France's exclusion of women from state-sponsored, formal artistic training, Bonheur was one of the most famous and commercially successful female painters of the 19th century. Her art and life are a shining example for all who don't fit within society's rigid norms. Bonheur didn't take no for an answer, so why should you?

Get to know more about Bonheur and other female artists of the Belle Époque at our link in bio, or visit the Bonheur retrospective at musba_bordeaux this year.

📷 Rosa Bonheur, 1861–64, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri. Getty Museum

#FrenchArtists #Painters #Photography #Pride

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