Rosa Bonheur

French · 1822–1899 · Painter, Printmaker

Rosa Bonheur was a French painter, sculptor and animalier. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Salon of 1849, and now in the Musée d'Orsay… (Wikipedia)

Email alerts for new results and upcoming sales

Own a work by Rosa Bonheur? Get a free auction estimate →

29lots offered2002–2026years recorded93%sold (26)$6kSign up free to seemedian price

Record prices

Show prices also in

Emigration de Bisons (Amérique)Coeur d'Alene Art Auction · Jul 2019$773,500≈ £622,485≈ €694,469Sign up to see
Tete de LionneBrunk Auctions · Feb 2026$85,000≈ £63,014≈ €72,175Sign up to see
UntitledHelmuth Stone Gallery · Dec 2024$66,150$52,500 + $13,650 premium≈ £52,083≈ €63,018Sign up to see

Rosa Bonheur’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

Rosa Bonheur was a French painter, sculptor and animalier. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Salon of 1849, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 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. She made sculptures in a realist style.

Excerpt from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1822, BordeauxDied 1899, ThomeryOccupation Painter, Printmaker, Sculptor, DraughtsmanWikidata Q241732 ↗ULAN 500014964 ↗Museum works 24

French RealismNaturalism

Also known as Bonheur, bonheur r., Bonheur Rosa, M^Telle^R Rosa Bonheur, Marie Rosa Bonheur, Marie Rosalie Bonheur, R. Bonheur, Rosa Bohneur and 1 other name form

Works in museum collections

Open-access images (public domain, CC0 or CC BY) from museum collections, each shown with its credit line and licence.

Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair — **The Horse Fair**1852–55 · Oil on canvas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1887 — Open Acc…

Rosa Bonheur, A Limier Briquet Hound — **A Limier Briquet Hound**ca. 1856 · Oil on canvas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest…

Rosa Bonheur, Weaning the Calves — **Weaning the Calves**1879 · Oil on canvas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest…

Rosa Bonheur, Shorn Ewe (Brebis Tondue) — **Shorn Ewe (Brebis Tondue)**modeled ca. 1842, cast probably before 1891 · Bronze
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Jean G. Wales, 1986 — Open Access (CC0)

Rosa Bonheur, Walking Bull — **Walking Bull**modeled 1846 · Bronze
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Edward Robinson, 1…

Rosa Bonheur, Study for "The Horse Fair" — **Study for "The Horse Fair"**19th century · Black chalk, brush and gray wash, heightened with white
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Edith H. Proskauer, 1975 — Open Ac…

Rosa Bonheur, The Legend of the Wolves — **The Legend of the Wolves**1890s · charcoal with stumping and erasing, black chalk, and pastel on blue wove paper, edge mounted to paperboard
National Gallery of Art, Washington ↗
CC0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation …

Rosa Bonheur, Ewe, or A Grazing Sheep — **Ewe, or A Grazing Sheep**model second half 19th century · bronze
National Gallery of Art, Washington ↗
CC0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon —…

Rosa Bonheur, Cattle in the Auvergne — **Cattle in the Auvergne**1867 · black and white chalk with stumping and touches of pastel on brown wove paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington ↗
CC0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund — Open Access (CC0)

Rosa Bonheur, Sketch of sheeps — **Sketch of sheeps**1862
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) — Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon

Rosa Bonheur, Untitled — **Untitled**1889
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valparaíso ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) — Museo de Bellas Artes de Valparaíso

Rosa Bonheur, A roe deer in the forest — **A roe deer in the forest**
Wikimedia Commons ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

Rosa Bonheur, Cattle and sheep in an Alpine landscape — **Cattle and sheep in an Alpine landscape**
Wikimedia Commons ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

Rosa Bonheur, Study of a Lion — **Study of a Lion**
Wikimedia Commons ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

Rosa Bonheur, Studies of Cows, Hens, Roosters, a Goose and a Sheep — **Studies of Cows, Hens, Roosters, a Goose and a Sheep**
Wikimedia Commons ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

Rosa Bonheur, Wild boar — **Wild boar**
Wikimedia Commons ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

Rosa Bonheur, The Farm at the Entrance of the Wood — **The Farm at the Entrance of the Wood**1860–80 · oil on fabric
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. John B. Dempsey — Open Access (CC0)

Rosa Bonheur, Wild Boars in the Snow — **Wild Boars in the Snow**c. 1872–77 · oil on wood panel
Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Noah L. Butkin — Open Access (CC0)

Rosa Bonheur, Cattle at Rest on a Hillside in the Alps — **Cattle at Rest on a Hillside in the Alps**1885 · Oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago ↗
CC0 · Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. Munger Collection — public domain (CC0)

Rosa Bonheur, Lion — **Lion**c. 1880 · Bronze
Art Institute of Chicago ↗
CC0 · Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Arthur Rubloff — public domain (CC0)

Rosa Bonheur, Chief Returning from a Bison Hunt and other Studies — **Chief Returning from a Bison Hunt and other Studies**c. 1890 · Graphite on greenish-gray wove paper
Art Institute of Chicago ↗
CC0 · Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dr. Ned Doucet — public domain (CC0)

Rosa Bonheur, Sketches of Cows — **Sketches of Cows**n.d. · Graphite, heightened with white gouache, on pale green wove paper
Art Institute of Chicago ↗
CC0 · Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection — publi…

Artist record compiled from: auction results, Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

Rosa Bonheur

Record prices

Works in museum collections

Related artists — French, born 1797–1847

More French artists of the same period