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W/C/P, 'Buck in Landscape', Rosa Bonheur, C. 1880 Medium: Watercolor. Support: Paper Artist: Rosa Bonheur Artist Dates: (1822 -1899) Country of Origin: France. Title & Description: 'Buck in Landscape'. Painting depicts a lone deer standing with foliage in background. Signature: "Rosa Bonheur" Date of Work: Circa 1880. Frame: Wood with cloth accent. Work Size: 9" H x 9.5" W Frame Size: 17.5" H x 18.5" W x 2.2"D Weight: 5lbs Provenance: The estate of Arthur J. Connolly. Condition: Very good, kept protected under glass but appears to have a very small tear to the left of the deer's chest. Artist Biography: Rosa Bonheur, born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, (16 March 1822 - 25 May 1899) was a French animaliere, realist artist, and sculptor. As a painter she became famous primarily for two chief works: Ploughing in the Nivernais (in French: Le labourage nivernais, le sombrage), which was first exhibited at the Salon of 1848, and is now in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris depicts a team of oxen ploughing a field while attended by peasants set against a vast pastoral landscape; and, The Horse Fair (in French: Le marche 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. Bonheur is widely considered to have been the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century. Meta: Painting