Rosa Bonheur, l'éloge de la peinture animalière / Université inter-âges de l'Ain

Rosa Bonheur, in praise of animal painting.
Cyril DEVÈS.

Making headlines by transgressing conventional codes of femininity in the 19th century, Rosa Bonheur is the epitome of a free artist. Contributing to the recognition of animal painting, her work bears witness to an era. Her skill and experience in reproducing the animals that crossed her path on a daily basis led her to spend her life, as she put it, "making human pride admire the beauty of their forms".