But that wasn’t always the case. In the 19th century, Rosa Bonheur was the most famous woman artist in the world, an animal painter whose work was widely reproduced, especially in the United States.

It’s been 200 years since French artist Rosa Bonheur was born and people are still talking about what she was wearing when she painted live lions and tigers and cows. Bonheur was one of a ...

The artist, Rosa Bonheur, has filled in the animals in the foreground and some of the sky and the sun-parched ground. Horses on the periphery are silhouettes in brown. Bonheur was working on the ...

The life of Rosa Bonheur, a trailblazing feminist and artist who rose to fame in 19th century France, will be played by Melanie Laurent in a sprawling period movie directed by Fabienne Berthaud.

Two rabbits nervously nibble at carrots, ears twitching. A wounded eagle strains in mid-air. A stag pauses in a forest, honeyed eyes fleetingly fixed on ours. The animals in Rosa Bonheur’s works ...

Art Bites brings you a surprising fact ... So said the 19th century’s most famous female painter, Rosa Bonheur. A curious quirk then, that her best-known work contains no bulls and rather ...

By Elaine Sciolino PARIS — How do we talk about Rosa Bonheur? A realistic painter of animals, she became the richest and most famous female artist of 19th-century France, burnishing her ...

Rosa Bonheur was a French artist working in the animalier style. Creating both sculptures and paintings, Bonheur is best known for her realist depictions of animals and is widely lauded as one of the ...