# Study for The Horse Fair, in Rosa Bonheur

Rosa Bonheur painted this in about 1850, aged about 23. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> A dozen horses circle in procession, some ridden and some led, sketched in greys and blacks in this oil study for Rosa Bonheur’s celebrated painting The Horse Fair.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1850
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 43.2 × 87 cm (17 × 34 1/2 in.); Framed: 69.3 × 111.8 × 10.2 cm (27 1/4 × 44 × 4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1977.3
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Rosa Bonheur](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/rosa-bonheur), French, 1822–1899

Bonheur trained with her father, the painter Raymond Bonheur, and studied animals closely in fields, markets and slaughterhouses, obtaining police permission to wear trousers for the purpose.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Rosa Bonheur's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-rosa-bonheur?hang=748) (8 works)
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