Return from the Horse Fair

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Return from the Horse Fair

Rosa BonheurLinkedCulture matchlcp-c82632e72da3

Date
1873
Medium
watercolor and gouache over graphite
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
166702

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Rosa Bonheur was the first woman artist to receive the Cross of the French Legion of Honor, a French civilian and military decoration. She achieved great official and commercial success, especially for her carefully finished and naturalistic paintings of animals. This watercolor displays Bonheur's technical mastery and her close study of anatomy, as well as her appreciation for the natural beauty of the horses. The animals are arranged in a shallow frieze across the long composition, and their manicured tails, along with the riders' costumes and the finely-wrought iron fence, identify them as stock from the historic national breeding stables. This drawing is one of numerous sheets relating to a large-scale painting now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Credit line
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Provenance
1940: (Christie, Manson & Wood, London, June 28, 1940, no. 3, sold to Gooden and Fox, London) | 1940-?: (Gooden and Fox, London) | ?-1955: Estate of Sir Jeremiah Colman [1859-1942], London | 1955: (Christie, Manson, & Wood, London, Colman estate sale, Mar. 25, 1955, no. 2) | ?-?: Hentzl, sold to Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, New York | ?-1976: Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge [1882-1973], New York | 1976: (Parke-Bernet, New York, May 14, 1976, no. 22, sold to the Shepherd Gallery) | 1976-1977: (Shepherd Gallery, New York, sold to Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH) | 1977-2008: Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | 2008-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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