Sheep
1861
Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur (French, 1822–1899)
Drawings
Sheep, 1861. Rosa Bonheur (French, 1822–1899). Brush and brown wash over graphite, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized to pink); sheet: 20.8 x 31.8 cm (8 3/16 x 12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1915.716
- Maker/Artist
- Bonheur, Rosa
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- brush and brown wash over graphite, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized to pink)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20.8 x 31.8 cm (8 3/16 x 12 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, lower left, in brown wash: Rosa Bonheur / -1861- ; VERSO, 1629 [illegible] [partially masked]
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1915.716
- Credit Line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Exhibitions
- Animals as Romantic Icons in French Art, French Drawings from the Collection, Conserving the Past for the Future, Dallas, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University; also to Washington, D.C.?, <em>Rosa Bonheur: Selected Works from American Collections</em> (Sep. 7-Oct. 22, 1989), no. 6.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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