To get this right, Bonheur sketched at the Paris horse market twice a week for a year and a half, wearing men's clothes so she could move through the crowd unnoticed. The finished canvas is more than 16 feet wide.
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The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rosa Bonheur, 1852–55. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (public domain).