Rosa Bonheur Husband: Was Rosa Bonheur Married? Who Was Rosa Bonheur’s Boyfriend?

Rosa Bonheur, was a French artist, mostly a painter of animals but also a sculptor, in a realist style.

Rosa Bonheur’s paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair (in French: Le marché aux chevaux),which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.

Rosa Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century.

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.

Rosa Bonheur’s most famous work, the monumental The Horse Fair, was completed in 1855 and measured eight feet high by sixteen feet wide.

Rosa Bonheur had no husband as she was openly lesbian. She lived with her partner Nathalie Micas for over 40 years until Micas’ death, after which she began a relationship with American painter Anna Elizabeth Klumpke.