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This, Bonheur’s best-known painting, shows the horse market held in
Paris on the tree-lined Boulevard de l’Hôpital, near the asylum of
Salpêtrière, which is visible in the left background. For a year and a
half Bonheur sketched there twice a week, dressing as a man to
discourage attention. Bonheur was well established as an animal painter
when the painting debuted at the Paris Salon of 1853, where it received
wide praise. In arriving at the final scheme, the artist drew
inspiration from George Stubbs, Théodore Gericault, Eugène Delacroix,
and ancient Greek sculpture: she referred to The Horse Fair as her own
"Parthenon frieze." (Read more.)
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Magnificent! Having loved horses since I was a child, I always adored this painting.
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