Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March – 25 May ) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculptures in a realist style. [1] Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, [2] first exhibited at the Salon of , and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair (in French: Le marché aux chevaux), [3] which was.