Sculptor - Rosa Bonheur
Title - Taureau Marchant
Sand Cast Bronze
Circa 1845
7 1/2" height by 12 1/4" length
(18 cm by 31 cm)
Rosa Bonheur did not want to compete with her brother Isidore so she only modeled sculptures until 1853. She exhibited a plaster of a Bull in the Paris Salon of 1843 and again in 1848. She was to model only thirteen different subjects in her brief carrier as a sculptress and very few of these were cast in bronze. Rosa dedicated herself entirely to painting after 1853 and she produced hundreds of oil and watercolor works, many of which were sold after her death. Her bronze sculptures are extremely rare and do not come on the marked very often. They are prized by museums and collectors for there extreme detail and accuracy of the subjects. This cast of Taureau Marchant is extremely detailed and the quality is of the finest that we have seen. Another cast of this sculpture is in the Fontainebleau museum collection.
Taureau Marchant is illustrated in the following books:
Art Bronzes by Michael Forrest, pg. 204.
Les Animaliers by Jane Horswell, pg. 179.
The Animaliers by James MacKay, pg. 48.
Animals in Bronze by Christopher Payne, pg. 174.
Bronzes of the 19th Century by Pierre Kjellberg.
|
