Editing Rosa Bonheur (section)

==Early success==
[[File:Rosa Bonheur - Ploughing in Nevers - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''[[Ploughing in the Nivernais]]'', [[Musée d'Orsay]]]] 
A French government commission led to Bonheur's first great success, ''[[Ploughing in the Nivernais]]'', exhibited in 1849 and now in the [[Musée d'Orsay]] in Paris.<ref name=orsay>{{Cite web|url=http://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/collections/oeuvres-commentees/recherche/commentaire/commentaire_id/labourage-nivernais-31.html|title=Rosa Bonheur: ''Labourage nivernais''|publisher=[[Musée d'Orsay]]|access-date=24 October 2014|archive-date=4 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404021133/https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/collections/oeuvres-commentees/recherche/commentaire/commentaire_id/labourage-nivernais-31.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her most famous work, the monumental ''[[The Horse Fair]]'', was completed in 1855 and measured {{convert|8|by|16|ft|m|spell=in}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.albrightknox.org/ArtStart/Bonheur.html |title=''The Horse Fair'' at Albright Knox Gallery |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070625055221/http://www.albrightknox.org/ArtStart/Bonheur.html |archive-date=25 June 2007 |access-date=27 October 2018}}, sketch for the London version; the sketch for the New York version is in the Ludwig Nissen Foundation, see: C. Steckner, in: ''Bilder aus der Neuen und Alten Welt. Die Sammlung des Diamantenhändlers [[Ludwig Nissen]], 1993, p. 142 and [http://www.spaeth.net/galerie/bonheur.htm spaeth.net] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041010000054/http://www.spaeth.net/galerie/bonheur.htm |date=10 October 2004 }}</ref> It depicts the [[horse fair|horse market]] held in Paris, on the tree-lined boulevard de l'Hôpital, near the [[Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital]], which is visible in the painting's background. There is a reduced version in the [[National Gallery]] in London.<ref>[https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/rosa-bonheur-the-horse-fair ''The Horse Fair''], National Gallery</ref>   This work led to international fame and recognition; that same year she traveled to Scotland and met [[Queen Victoria]], who admired Bonheur's work''.'' In Scotland, she completed sketches for later works including ''[https://www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/rosa-bonheur/the-highland-shepherd/ Highland Shepherd],'' completed in 1859, and ''[https://nmwa.org/art/collection/highland-raid/ The Highland Raid],'' completed in 1860. These pieces depicted a way of life in the [[Scottish highlands]] that had disappeared a century earlier, and they had enormous appeal to [[Victorian era|Victorian]] sensibilities.{{citation needed|reason=Discussion of Scotland and England probably isn't included in the French gov. citation at the end of this paragraph|date=March 2016}}

Bonheur exhibited her work at the [[Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)|Palace of Fine Arts]] and [[The Woman's Building (Chicago)|The Woman's Building]] at the 1893 [[World's Columbian Exposition]] in Chicago, Illinois.<ref name="Nichols">{{cite web |last1=Nichols |first1=K. L. |title=Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893| url=http://arcadiasystems.org/academia/cassatt11.html#bonheurR|access-date=24 July 2018}}</ref> In 1889 and 1890 she developed a friendship with American sculptor [[Cyrus Edwin Dallin|Cyrus Dallin]] who was studying in Paris. Together they traveled to Neuilly outside of Paris to sketch the animals and cast of [[Buffalo Bill|Buffalo Bill Cody]]'s Wild West Show at their encampment.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Francis |first=Rell |title=Cyrus E. Dallin Let Justice Be Done |year=1976 |lccn=76-12352 |location=Cyrus Dallin Art Museum |pages=27, 39–40}}</ref>  In 1890 Bonheur painted Cody on horseback. Dallin's work from this period "[[A Signal of Peace]]" would also be displayed in Chicago in 1893 and be the first major step in his career.

Though she was more popular in England than in her native France, she was decorated with the French [[Legion of Honour]] by [[Empress Eugénie]] in 1865, and was promoted to Officer of the Order in 1894.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/leonore_fr?ACTION=RETROUVER&FIELD_1=Cnoms&VALUE_1=bonheur&FIELD_2=PRENOMS&VALUE_2=&FIELD_3=DATE%2dNSS&VALUE_3=&FIELD_4=LIEU%2dNSS&VALUE_4=&FIELD_5=Nom%20de%20jeune%20fille&VALUE_5=&FIELD_6=SEXE&VALUE_6=%20&FIELD_7=COTE&VALUE_7=&NUMBER=3&GRP=0&REQ=%28%28bonheur%29%20%3aNOM%2cNOM2%2cNOM%2dJF%2cNOM%2dMARI%2cSURNOM%2cNOTES%20%29&USRNAME=nobody&USRPWD=4%24%2534P&SPEC=9&SYN=1&IMLY=&MAX1=1&MAX2=1&MAX3=100&DOM=All|title=Base Léonore, recensement des récipiendaires de la Légion d'honneur|work=culture.gouv.fr}}</ref> She was the first female artist to be given this award.<ref name=DWA /><ref name="Phaidon Editors">{{cite book |author= |title=Great women artists |date=2019 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0714878775 |page=65}}</ref>