Bordeaux (France), 1822 - Thomery (France), 1899
See author's fileFrom 1870, the year of the outbreak of the Franco Prussian war, Rosa Bonheur revealed a marked interest in lions, seeing an admirable nobility in their ferocious nature. These fifteen life studies, which demonstrate the artist’s ability to capture her subjects in a spontaneous manner and with striking economy of means, focus on their typical postures and on various anatomical details.
Roger-Milès, Léon, Atelier Rosa Bonheur, T.I: Catalogue des tableaux par Rosa Bonheur, Georges Petit, París, 1900, pp. nº 51-65.
Klumpke, Anna, Rosa Bonheur sa vie, son oeuvre, Flammarion, París, 1908.
Ribement, Francis, Rose Bonheur telle qu'elle même. L' artiste et ses animaux, en: Rosa Bonheur: (1822-1899), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, 1997, pp. 93-97.
Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), Flammarion, París, 2022, pp. 195 nº 184.
Rosa Bonheur & Anna Klumpke, Souvenirs de ma vie, Phébus,, París, 2022, pp. 328-333.
Barón, Javier, 'Rosa Bonheur. Estudio de leones y leonas, después de 1871', En: Memoria de Actividades 2022, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, 2023, pp. 31-33.
Hornstein, Katie, Myth and menagerie: seeing lions in the nineteenth century..., Yale University Press, 2024, pp. 194-202.
Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 3088.
Rosa Bonheur
Signed.
Front, Lower right area
Room 062B (On Display)
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