It’s been 200 years since French artist Rosa Bonheur was born and people are still talking about what she was wearing when she painted live lions and tigers and cows. Bonheur was one of a handful of ...

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PARIS — On a visit to the Musée d’Orsay in late October — school holiday time in France — the lines to get in were long, and the soaring space inside as teeming with people as it might have been when ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Until recently, I thought that Rosa Bonheur was a peony. She is, but only because she was somebody famous first ...

She was an international superstar. And then she was ignored. Now one family is working fervently to restore the forgotten artist to greatness Elaine Sciolino; Photographs by Claudine Doury Édouard ...

During her lifetime, Rosa Bonheur’s stunningly realistic paintings of horses, oxen, lions and other animals garnered widespread critical acclaim. After her death in 1899, however, the French ...

French painter and sculptor Rosa Bonheur, who was born in 1822 and died in 1899, is famous for her distinctive work featuring animals. On Wednesday, the 200th anniversary of her birthday, Google ...

French painter Rosa Bonheur is being remembered today as the latest Google Doodle celebrates her 200th birthday. Google Doodles often change the classic Google logo to incorporate a historical figure ...

An exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay will be the first major Paris show in over 100 years for a painter who defied gender expectations in her personal as well as in her professional life. By Elaine ...

Q: This sculpture has been in our family for over 60 years. It is marked "I. Bonheur" on the base. What is the animal, and what is this piece worth? E.S. Toledo, Ohio A: This bronze sculpture is very ...