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| Keywords: Rosa Bonheur - The Conversation - Walters 37907.jpg Bonheur's art was underpinned by detailed analytical study and she is known to have visited slaughterhouses and dissected animals to acquire an understanding of anatomy In the 1850s she also kept a collection of horses sheep and goats in her Paris studio for study purposes Later she kept an even larger menagerie including lions at her ch teau in By at the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau where she moved in 1860 and lived for the rest of her life Rosa Bonheur Bordeaux 1997 This drawing shows a shepherd and his dog absorbed in their own private conversation They sit silhouetted against the light breaking through the clouds The drawing demonstrates Bonheur's ability to imbue her animals with near-human emotions Particularly prominent is the ram to the right with large curled horns which looks out at the spectator as does the sheep in the center which watches the viewer out of the corner of its eye The costume of the shepherd particularly his wide-brimmed hat suggests that the scene takes place in the Pyrenees which Bonheur had first visited in 1850 Thereafter she regularly represented the shepherds of the Pyrenees and their flocks including notably the Shepherd in the Pyrenees 1864 in the Musée Condé Chantilly 1858 charcoal heightened with white guache on blue/gray moderately thick heavily textured wove paper cm 36 9 55 2 accession number 37 907 17872 Goupil New York William T Walters Baltimore April 28 1860 by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1860 Rosa Bonheur 1858 in lower right The Essence of Line A Connoisseur's Portfolio Lost and Found The Secrets of Archimedes The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2011-2012 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D A Connoisseur's Portfolio The Essence of Line Rosa Bonheur Drawings in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
