Realism in France

Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

1852–55

Oil on canvas, 244.5 × 506.7 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Grooms lead and ride horses at the Paris horse market on the boulevard de l'Hôpital.

• Shown at the Salon of 1853, where it was widely praised; she retouched it in 1855.
• The dome of the Salpêtrière shows in the left background.
• A working Paris market scene, painted about five meters wide.

Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · Public Domain (Met Open Access)