Who Painted This? #12

I convey to expire along thinking of novel ways to challenge those participating inwards the challenge of identifying who, inwards the history of art, painted this painting, what's it called together with where is it right away - together with how did y'all run out the answer!

This is something of an iconic paradigm of paintings.

Who painted this? #12
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Who Painted This #11 - The Answer


Ploughing inwards Nevers (1849) by Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899)
Collection: 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
It is primarily an beast painting, together with the heroes are the oxen themselves, leaving piffling room for the men: the cowherd is a diminutive figure. It is a hymn to agricultural labour, whose grandeur was magnified because, inwards these post-revolutionary days, it was slow to contrast alongside the corruption of the city. It is besides tribute to provincial regions – hither the Nivernais, alongside its agricultural traditions together with rural landscapes.
This is i the nearly enormous paintings of animals that I've always seen.  Check out those dimensions - they're inwards metres!  Translating them for those yet working inwards feet together with inches it's 4ft 5in x 8ft 6in.  It is besides stunningly real, the footing is amazing together with the animals are massive together with beautiful at the same fourth dimension - equally befits whatever beast lucky plenty to convey been painted by Rosa Bonheur.

I'm an inveterate lensman of paintings closed upward if allowed to create therefore - which was possible inwards 2009 when I photographed this painting.

Clods of Nevers footing in Ploughing inwards Nevers (1849) by Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899)Collection: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Look at the animation inwards the faces of the oxen!
Ploughing inwards Nevers (1849) by Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899)Collection: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Painted for a committee together with originally intended for the Musée de Lyon simply when finished it was decided that this paradigm should rest inwards Paris.  It's moved some earlier finally ending upward at the Musée d'Orsay inwards 1986.

Despite its enormous size it has besides moved to diverse exhibitions.  It was exhibited at the Salon inwards 1849 together with since together with therefore has been seen inwards exhibitions inwards London, Munich, Madrid, Toulouse, Beijing, Shanghei together with Tapei.

If y'all catch the Musée d'Orsay, when I lastly saw it, it was located on the footing flooring on the Seine side of the Museum together with quite close to Courbet's massive paradigm L'Atelier du peintre.

Women dominated the right answers!

The winner is Alyson Champ (The Chronicle of Wasted Time) who is a collage creative somebody (who does amazing collage fine art - cheque out her blog!), small-scale farmer together with a classical instrumentalist who lives inwards the Chateauguay Valley, southwest of Montreal, Quebec. It's really apposite that an creative somebody who focuses on animals - together with is noted for her handling of equine subjects together with is Associate Member of the prestigious American Academy of Equine Art - should larn the reply first
Sorry if at that spot are 2 of my answers. Something seemed to expire incorrect the starting fourth dimension time.
Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899)"Ploughing inwards Nevers" 1849 1,34X2,6 thousand huile sur toileMusée D'OrsayFound easily because I knew it was a Bonheur simply did non know the title. Googled Rosa Bonheur+cows together with constitute it on Musée D'Orsay site easily.
Others who got the reply correct, inwards order, are:
Jennifer Rose Phillip got the artist's name.


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