Rosa Bonheur
(1822 - 1899)

 

Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculpture in a realist style. Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais, first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair (in French: Le marché aux chevaux), which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Bonheur

The Highland Shepherd
1859
Oil on canvas
49 x 63 cm
Hamburger Kunsthalle