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Wayne Thiebaud on Rosa Bonheur’s “The Horse Fair”

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Beautiful horse painting by French painter Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899).  At the time that Bonheur became an artist, women generally were only reluctantly given opportunities for education as artists. She represented a “New Woman” of the 19th century, with liberal sexual ideas and by becoming a successful artist, showed what she…

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