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Rosa Bonheur
French, 1822–1899
Bull Resting
1832–1899
Image Caption
Rosa Bonheur, Bull Resting, 1832–1899, pencil on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1961
Medium
pencil on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 11 3/4 x 17 3/16 in. (29.9 x 43.7 cm)
Object Number
1955.1961
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Dallas (TX): Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University.. Rose Bonheur: Selected Works from American Collections. Sept. 8-Oct. 22, 1989; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D. C., Dec. 12, 1989-March 11, 1990. Bowdoin College Art Museum.. Rose Bonheur's Acclaim in America. February 6-March 17, 1996. L. Roger-Miles.. Atelier Rosa Bonheur, Aquarelles et Dessins.. 2.. Paris, 1900.. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966. Nathan Goldstein.. The Art of Responsive Drawing.. Prentice-Hall.. 1973.. Nathan Goldstein.. The Art of Responsive Drawing, 2nd ed.. Prentice Hall.. 1976..
Provenance
Atelier Rosa Bonheur (atelier stamp, L. 275, at bottom right; sale stamp L. 276, in red sealing wax on reverse of frame; sale Paris, Georges Petit, 5–8 June, 1900, no. 1426);* William Schaus, New York (label on reverse); McDonald, New York (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1942).
*"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.