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Portrait of Rosa Bonheur

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Artist

Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856 - 1942)

Title

Portrait of Rosa Bonheur

Creation Date

1898

Century

19th century

Dimensions

21 7/8 in. x 17 15/16 in. (55.5 cm. x 45.5 cm.)

Object Type

drawing

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

pastel on paper

Credit Line

Gift of the Misses Harriet Sarah and Mary Sophia Walker

Copyright

Public Domain

Accession Number

1901.7

Anna Klumpke’s pastel portrait of the French painter Rosa Bonheur was created a year before Bonheur’s death. Celebrated in her day as the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century, Bonheur was known for her realistic renderings of animals, especially horses. Klumpke, a native of San Francisco and a student at the Académie Julian in Paris, met Bonheur in France in 1895. Shortly thereafter the two women began a professional and romantic partnership that lasted until Bonheur’s death. In this pastel drawing, which served as a preparatory sketch for a larger oil portrait now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Klumpke depicts Bonheur wearing her medal of the Order of the Legion of Honor.

Keywords: portraits