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The Horse Fair

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Artist
  
Period
  
Realism

Media
  
Oil paint

Dimensions
  
2.44 m x 5.07 m

Created
  
1852–1855

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Genres
  
Genre art, Animal Painting

Similar
  
Artwork at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Realism artwork

The Horse Fair is an oil on canvas painting by Rosa Bonheur, begun in 1852. It was first exhibited in 1853 at the Paris Salon and reworked until completed in 1855. It has been in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1887, when it was donated by Cornelius Vanderbilt II.

Bonheur painted The Horse Fair from a series of sketches she had made at the Paris horse market on the boulevard de l'Hôpital. She attended the market twice weekly for a year and a half, dressed as a man to receive less attention. After its showing at the Paris Salon of 1853, the painting subsequently was shown throughout Europe and the USA. It was the most acclaimed of Bonheur's works, and is described by the Metropolitan Museum as one of its best known works of art.

Painter Molly Luce claimed that The Horse Fair was the first work which influenced her.

References

The Horse Fair Wikipedia


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