Her name sounds like a nickname, but it's her, Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), birth name Marie Rosalie.
An animal painter with a deep sensitivity and a virtuoso technique, almost photographic, acclaimed during her lifetime then forgotten, considered academic to the point that until recently there were watercolors or charcoals of her at less than a thousand euros.
For his bicentenary, the star regains his crown with his first Parisian retrospective at the Musée d'Orsay, after a presentation in the spring at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, his hometown.
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