William Wetmore Story
American sculptor, art critic, poet, translator and editor
About the Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheurwas a French artist known best as a painter of animalsand 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.
It has been claimed that Bonheur was openly lesbian, as she lived with her partner Nathalie Micas for over 40 years until Micas’s death, after which she lived with American painter Anna Elizabeth Klumpke. However, others remark that nothing supports this claim.
3 Quotes by Rosa Bonheur
- 1.
The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.
Rosa BonheurFrench artist
- 2.
But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.
Rosa BonheurFrench artist
- 3.
To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.
Rosa BonheurFrench artist