Rosa Bonheur Quotes
The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.
Klumpke, Anna. Rosa Bonheur: The Artist's (Auto)biography. Translated by Gretchen van Slyke, University of Michigan Press, 1997, p. 206.
One of 5 very accomplished sisters of the prestigious Mitford family, she married Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists. Her marriage, in 1936, took place at the home of Joseph Goebbels, with Adolf Hitler as guest of honor. Subsequently, her involvement with right-wing political causes resulted in three years' internment during the Second World War and social disgrace.and ostracism.
Rosa Bonheur, born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, was a French artist, mostly a painter of animals (animalière) but also a sculptor, in a realist style. Her best-known paintings are Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair (in French: Le marché aux chevaux), which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) 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.
