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Bull Resting

Rosa Bonheur

French, 1822–1899

Bull Resting

1832–1899

Medium pencil on paper
Dimensions Overall: 11 3/4 x 17 3/16 in. (29.9 x 43.7 cm)
Object Number 1955.1961
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Rosa Bonheur, Bull Resting, 1832–1899, pencil on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1961

Select Bibliography

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966. Dallas (TX): Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University.. Rose Bonheur: Selected Works from American Collections. Sept. 8-Oct. 22, 1989; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D. C., Dec. 12, 1989-March 11, 1990. Bowdoin College Art Museum.. Rose Bonheur's Acclaim in America. February 6-March 17, 1996. L. Roger-Miles.. Atelier Rosa Bonheur, Aquarelles et Dessins.. 2.. Paris, 1900.. Nathan Goldstein.. The Art of Responsive Drawing.. Prentice-Hall.. 1973.. Nathan Goldstein.. The Art of Responsive Drawing, 2nd ed.. Prentice Hall.. 1976..

Provenance

Atelier Rosa Bonheur (atelier stamp, L. 275, at bottom right; sale stamp L. 276, in red sealing wax on reverse of frame; sale Paris, Georges Petit, 5–8 June, 1900, no. 1426);* William Schaus, New York (label on reverse); McDonald, New York (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1942). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.

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