Publisher's Synopsis
Volume 23 Bless the Beasts Rosa Bonheur Born as Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, (16 March 1822 - 25 May 1899) was a French artist, an animalière (painter of animals) and sculptor, known for her artistic realism To date my age, Bonheur's body of work, brought back to mind. the Carpenters and one of their top hits.'Bless the beasts and the children' For the world can never be, The world they see. Light their wayWhen the darkness surrounds them;Give them love, let it shine all around them.Bless the beasts and the children;Give them shelter from a storm;Keep them safe;Keep them warm.Light their wayWhen the darkness surrounds themGive them...' First exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, was Bonheur's first well-known painting, Ploughing in the Nivernais, and The Horse Fair. It perhaps will not as much of a surprise, after viewing these and some of her other works that Marie Bonheur was considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century
