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Rosa Bonheur. The Horse Fair.
1853 - 1855. Oil on canvas, 244 x 507 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1887.
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Rosa Bonheur received a French government commission which lead to her first great success, Ploughing in the Nivernais, exhibited in 1849.
Her most famous work was the monumental Horse Fair, completed in 1855.
This picture shows the horse market held in Paris on the tree-lined boulevard de l'Hôpital, near the asylum of Salpêtrière,
visible in the left background. For a year and a half Bonheur went there twice a week to make sketches. She dressed as a man to avoid attention.
This work was shown in the Salon of 1853 and in 1854 in Bonheur's native Bordeaux, where the municipality refused to buy it for 12,000 francs.
It was apparently retouched in 1855, the year it was sold to a London dealer for 40,000 francs.
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