LIBERTY Classic Wooden PUZZLE The Horse Fair 1855 ROSA BONHEUR Antique Fine Art
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LIBERTY PUZZLES - The Horse Fair ... an Antique French painting which now resides in New York at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Rosa Bonheur, France ~ PRISTINEStunning Liberty Classic Wooden Puzzle - Complete.About the Artist:‘Rosa Bonheur, born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur (16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899), was a French artist, mostly a painter of animals (animalière) but also a sculptor, in a realist style.[1] Her best-known paintings are Ploughing in the Nivernais, [2] first exhibited at ...the Paris Salon of 1848, and now at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair (in French: Le marché aux chevaux), [3] which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City. Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century.’And more:‘Bonheur, while taking pleasure in activities usually reserved for men (such as hunting and smoking), viewed her womanhood as something far superior to anything a man could offer or experience. She viewed men as stupid and mentioned that the only males she had time or attention for were the bulls she painted.Having chosen to never become an adjunct or appendage to a man in terms of painting, she decided she would be her own boss and that she would lean on herself and her female partners instead. She had her partners focus on the home life while she took on the role of breadwinner by focusing on her painting. Bonheur's legacy paved the way for other lesbian artists who didn't favour the life society had laid out for them.’Features loads of French fiqures, with many horse and field themed whimsical pieces.Liberty Classic Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle - in Excellent preowned condition. Assembled gently once by adults. Like new and pristine - no missing pieces, in the original Liberty presentation box with colorful tissues. Lots of FUN with dozens of intricately cut ‘Whimsies’.Liberty puzzles are the BEST we have had the pleasure to assemble - always very challenging and entertaining to put together!Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.
