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Michel Bassompierre, le maître de la sculpture animalière, est décédé ce mardi 21 avril
L’exposition Élégances animales dans le centre-ville et au sein du Moulin-Gautron, à Vertou, dans la métropole de Nantes…
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"El Cid (Lion Head)," Rosa Bonheur, 1879.
Bonheur (1822-99) was an animaliere, or an artist who specialized in animals. Her portraits of wild and domestic animals, sometimes people's beloved pets, are remarkable for their realism but also lacking the sort of saccharine sentimentality that one might expect.
She would go to fairs and circuses in trousers (requiring a special "transvestite permit" to do so) and paint animals there; she even painted animals used in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show when it played in Paris. She exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair and received the Legion of Honor in her native France, the first woman artist to be honored. A portrait of her, by Edouard Dubufe, has her with her arm around a bull...that she painted in herself.
Bonheur broke gender norms; she was an independent and successful artist, wore men's clothing, lived openly with other women, and enjoyed a freedom and power usually only reserved for men. She was known to view men as stupid and said the only men she had time for were the bulls she painted. Or this lion, who seems to express the wildness and determination that she felt in her own life.
Happy Portrait Monday! (And yes, animal portraits count.)
From the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
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