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Will received a telegram announcing that his house was ablaze, and his reply was characteristic: "Save Rosa Bonheur's picture, and the house may go to blazes." When the frontier war was ended and the troops disbanded, Will made application for another company of Indians to take back to Europe with him.
She says: "This biography consists of reminiscences of Rosa Bonheur's life, her impressions of Nature, God, and Art, with perhaps a short sketch of how I became acquainted with the illustrious woman whose precious maternal tenderness will remain forever the most glorious event of my life." At the Salon des Artistes Français, 1903, Miss Klumpke exhibited a picture called "Maternal Affection."
I met Tissot and Gambard, who had just built Rosa Bonheur's house at Nice. I liked the Frenchmen because they liked me, but I didn't admire them. I tried to learn to smoke, but I never took kindly to it and soon gave it up. What was the thing that made me homesick for London? Household Words.
When Prussia conquered France, and swept through this town, orders were given that Rosa Bonheur's home and paintings be carefully preserved. Even her servants went unmolested. The peasants idolized the great woman who lived in the chateau, and were eager to serve her. She always talked to them pleasantly. Rosa Bonheur died at her home at 11 P.M., Thursday, May 25, 1899.
Mark another significant fact: The three greatest productions of art during the past three years are by women Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair and Harriet Hosmer's Beatrice Cenci and these triumphs are in three of its most difficult and exalted departments. In April she took Mrs.
One critic writes: "Her oxen and camels, like Rosa Bonheur's horses, stand out from canvas as living things. They have been the admiration of art lovers at the Salon in Paris, the Royal Academy in London, and at picture exhibitions in Austria-Hungary and Germany." Among her works are "Oxen at Rest," "The Artist's Friends," "Hounds in the Woods," painted in California.
This painting went from Paris to London, where it was bought for rising £1,500, and created such an interest in the artist's personality as would have turned the head of any ordinary woman; but Rosa Bonheur's whole life proves her no ordinary woman. For many years Mlle.
And, finally, the family contributions were completed when Juliette, now Madame Peyrol, added her pictures, and the works of the five artists were seen in the same Exhibition. In 1849 Rosa Bonheur's "Cantal Oxen" was awarded the gold medal, and was followed by "Ploughing in the Nivernais," so well known the world over by engravings and photographs.
But Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair suited us clear down to the ground her horses looked like real horses, even if they were the kind that haul brewery wagons; and in the matter of sculpture Powers' Greek Slave seemed to fill the bill to the satisfaction of all.
Beforehand I had been told that the scene on the stage would be a veritable picture. And so it was Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair. As a matter of fact the best dancer I saw in Europe was a performing trick pony in a winter circus in Berlin. I also remember with distinctness of detail a chorusman who took part in a new Lehar opera, there in Berlin.
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