Artist

Rosa Bonheur

1822–1899 · born in Bordeaux · died in Thomery

Rosa Bonheur was born in Bordeaux, France, and grew up in Paris, where she studied animals at farms and markets. She became one of the most famous women artists of the 1800s, painting horses, cattle and sheep. She even got official permission to wear trousers in public so she could work. She died at her château in Thomery, near Paris, in 1899.