Google Doodle celebrates French painter Rosa Bonheur’s 200th birth anniversary

Google Doodle celebrated French painter Rosa Bonheur’s 200th birth anniversary with a special graphic. The graphic features an animated figurine of Rosa Bonheur painting a flock of sheep on canvas.

Google Doodle celebrated French painter Rosa Bonheur’s 200th birth anniversary with a special graphic on March 16. Rosa’s successful career inspired a future generation of women in the arts. The graphic features an animated figurine of Rosa Bonheur painting a flock of sheep on canvas.

Rosa Bonheur was born on March 16, 1822 in Bordeaux, France. Her early artistic education was facilitated by her father, a minor landscape painter. Although her aspirations for a career in the arts were unconventional for women of the time, Bonheur closely followed the development of artistic traditions through years of careful study and preparing sketches before immortalising them on canvas.

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Bonheur's reputation as an animal painter and sculptor grew into the 1840s, with many of her works exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon from 1841 to 1853. Scholars believe an 1849 exhibition of “Plowing in Nivernais,” a government commission that is now housed in France’s Musée Nationale du Château de Fontainebleau, established her as a professional artist.

In 1853, Bonheur garnered international acclaim with her painting “The Horse Fair,” which depicted the horse market held in Paris. As her most well-known work, this painting remains on exhibit in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.