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<»- \u25a0' •ID . SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 1899. EVENTFUK LIFE of famous ROSA BONHEUR

"THE HORSE FAIR": ROSA BONHEUR'S HOST FAMOUS PAINTING,v NOW IN THE HETROPOLITAN HUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK: BONHEUR, the famous French , who died On the roof she kept her. pets— pair of rabbits, an owl, a dog, away portfolios a week ago at the age of seventy-seven at her home in Fon- a dearly den with 1800 of her early animal sketches. each year's salon. They became one of the regularly looked-for fu- tainebleau, cat and a beloved little goat. When she thought the goat She got into odd.predicaments was the only woman who ever received the cross needed an airing while thus masquerading as a boy. tures. She sold a number of pictures at modest prices, and the money. in the park she would take it on her shoulders and The coarse but good-natured stockyards, was of the Legion d'Honneur for intellectual achievements. carry it down long flights again men of the who admired used to lessen the pangs of poverty in the Bonheur home. always the six of stairs and back in the same the supposed boy's .pictures, would try -target her' drunk. re- -appeared painting fame, Rosa Bonheur wore men's clothes. She was burled way. After her would dog and cat, making She 1n. 1853 the .which established her "Tha them, Legion follow the as queer a fused all liquor but accepted their cigarettes?S_tid_.as long as Horse Fair," now Metropolitan In and on her breast was the cross of the d'Hon- group as was ever seen on the queer streets. kept she lived in the Art Museum in New York. She ROSAneur. Parisian up the smoking habit. sold' this originally for $8000, at that time was a fortune in Rosa's family of animals never quarreled. a mes- her little .which In grave near cross She exercised The men called ' " "the '' Hussar" because of her Independent France. Ernest Gambart was purchaser. Upon receiving the Fontainebleau Is the that the beautiful meric influence over these animals. Under her gaze dispositions ways. \u25a0'' ' ' the the Empress Eugenic herself presented to Rosa Bonheur in 1865. In that harmonized, their r..^^"".- ; • •\u25a0* . ':' \u25a0"- money It seemed such a large amount to Mile. Bonheur that she vol- and her cat, her dog. her rabbits and the goat and the Once when was returning year a terrible epidemic of cholera was raging InParis. Eugenic In- owl all lived together Mile."Bonheur from the country in her untarily offered to paint for him a' quarter-size copy of it. She gave on accompanying her in perfect peace and happiness. usual male attire she heard that one of her girl friends was ill, this to sisted husband on his visits to the hospitals. About this time she went to study at , and M. Gambart so that he could. have an engraving made of It In admiration of his wife's bravery Napoleon 111 presented the- where she without changing the costume hurried to the sick-room. While she and recover some of the original cost of his picture. Gambart her with made copies of the great masterpieces. The first money she was on M. the cross of the Legion d'Honneur. ,.\:;. painting that seated the bed affectionately holding the patient's: hand the afterward sold the original at a loss to William P. Wright of New earned from was from the sale of these copies. doctor came In,. seeing young A few days later the cross for "intellectual achievement" was be- day made and a man in such a familiar position York for $4500. § He in turn sold it to A. T. Stewart, the great New One she a study of her goat with the grandeur of Its hastily and, discreetly goods • , stowed upon Rosa Bonheur. natural surroundings. closed the door. retired. York dry; king, for several times that price. When Stewart's The Empress Eugenic herself carried it to the artist. Mile. Bon- The sick girl saw- that 'Rosa's male attire had led the physician art collection was sold' in 1887 Cornelius Vanderbllt bought "The Horse "Itis wonderful!" was her father's comment. After that no more to believe was ran after, doctor, heur inher studio trousers received the Empress; who cordially kissed copying from other artists; no what far from the truth. Rosa the Fair" for. the.Metropolitan Art Museum, and .he paid for it $55,000. more hurried charcoal sketches of her luckily caught him on the stairs, and left him surprised that the With: ',' Fair", money was buy and embraced the artist. own pets. Rosa devoted herself seriously to painting young . the" Horse Rosa Bonheur able to tha Eugenic Rosa pinned shoul- • \u25a0•';.- animals from man whom he had left tete-a-tete with his patient was a beautiful By, Forest, near Paris. When left Bonheur discovered on her -\u25a0 "*»"*• \u25a0 chateau of in Fountalnebleau nature. 2 \u25a0 . \u25a0 and woman artist. .\u25a0- *-..'-\u25a0'. der the famous coveted decoration. Mile. Bonheur thus became Rosa was yet in her early teens, and . .- . This --chateau -was built originally as a hunting lodge by Marie a "chevalier" of the empire, which honor the French republic con- but dresses parties held no All this. time she was so poor that even.the humblest of the men de Medici. Mile. Bonheur remodeled it, making the upper story a attraction: for her. She rose at daybreak,' walking the weary miles In the stockyards One of firmed by making her an "'officer" of the Legion d'Honpeur. to th.' pastures .where cattle grazed. had better fare than she. the men,- who large studio. Itfloors were covered with the skins of huge animals j Bonheur, won have ever beyond the At noon she ate a scanty scalded and dressed calves' heads, noticed that the little bulls, bears, some owner Rosa who laurels that been the lunch which she carried With her, and after a day's laborious pointing regularly brought only pieces • artist who lions— of which their artist had hunted and grasp of her sex, was not born with the proverbial golden spoon. ,The home, came so a few of bread, which an- shot and some were the preserved skins of pets. This studio as often there was a weary walk a simple supper and a few rest for So great artist thus described her early life to an intimate, friend,'. who- Finally visiting hours' swered both breakfast and lunch. he took her to his own house as not contained a live tiger, a lion or a ferocious dog that down, she thought, of the stockyards and abattoirs She to share his noonday struck. immediately wrote it catching the vivacity and humor which went with delight at meal. . visitors . dumb with terror. \u25a0 through • - --._•.'; wild the opportunity afforded for study. But the "Little Hussar" was soon to- taste the Joys of ran the recital: ?: Rosa straightway cropped her hair, donned boys' success. Rosa Bonheur herself felt absolutely no terror for animals. Ths "My father was a teacher of drawing in , and. had his attire and be- She had painted two pictures of her house-top pets. They were hand that came a fixture at these places. Stories without number are at. in under small handled a brush with such power moved in the mana hands full bringing up four children on his slender salary. Mymother the told In exhibited the ..Paris Salon 1841 the titles of "Two Rab- of a trembling. was a lion, to by Paris of associations with drovers and butchers. She Jostled with bits" and "A a Sheep." They were hung -Hon without There wild said be *an>»' assisted as well as she could giving music lessons. My mother stockyard men, on Goat and * on the "line" and tamable, which she kept at By In a cage for a long time. seven, the sat boxes and fences all day sketching the admired. •*\u25a0 V •-*.*/ ' '3gW died when Iwas about and Bordeaux became intolerable to animals, even setting easel In slaughter-house much . . The beast great Bonheur, my father. SPMII|II-!II_JJ,_|E her the and painting Her success In having her first pictures accepted encouraged her manifested affection for Rosa who the poor animals in,their mute death agonies. to paint placed herself before him, palette in hand, and made a study oat him] "We came to Paris and father sent us to an .honest childless :three more for the next exhibition. These were even more magnificence. Now — Catherine,' as we her. Somewhere in'her chateau it is said that Rosal Bonheur has hid- favorably received; For twelve years after that she pictures in all his fierce and then he would pass his greats. widow 'Mme. called Mon Dle'u! how unen- ' had at paw between the bars and dumbly ask her for a caress. durable it was for me to sit beside the old lady all day long and sew But her retainers feared "Nero," and because she did not hava or knit or—pire encore help in domestic work. to train eyes time him herself she determined to send him to Paris to be "Whenever we escaped Mme. Catherine's watchful we en- tamed. "Nero" was sad, as though he divined the coming separa- Joyed ourselves my sister Yuliette (now Mme. Peysolle) by painting tion, j day departure sheep, my drawing cows, moulding When the of came and he started on his Jour- brother August Isadore clay and ney he turned about with a look of grief—almost of reproach— tha; Ipicturing everything long as it could creep, crawl, Jump or fly. Cfiimay, ; eyes as Life of Sensational that superb of the face where the Greeks found the lines for their; Boulogne, Princess We used to ramble about the Bols de which was a wilder- ness Jupiter. . then compared to what it Is now. "Nero" was taken the Jardin Paris. 'f day came Joy me would to dcs Plantes in He was not] "One father home full of and told he be so well as at eyeai to put boarding exchange drawing Abroad, treated there Rosa Bonheur's. A disease of the able me In a school in for lessons. An made him blind. The artist who had used him for her superb was Girf study*] Paris, Who boarding American It one of Married the best schools in where there were went to see him. She was moved to find him stretched out in hlflfl young ladies who were taught the fashionable accomplishments, cage, and dying. "My good simpler education, humiliated [r.kfij.v father wished for a kind of more in Rlgo's Death by Plague In Cairo Reported He see Rosa Bonheur, harmony with his means. But choice was not left to him and he Was Last Week, 'but- the Princess Denied It Later. could not -but- he heard her. The cleat? • by voice called "Nero" and the lion stood up, groped about in the dark-i eagerly seized on this fortunate opportunity, consoling himself that came, wire last. week that 'devil stood sponsor when Clara was place, my Rigo,. eloped Ward was asked to leave the and was ness which surrounded him until his huge paw- found the hand oft Iwould become an accomplished young lady and that Intercourse - who from Paris with born, and that she had always been more hurried by Mrs. Ward to less conventional his mistress, grasp. with well-bred girls my abrupt manners. the Princess Chlmay, had or which he held until death loosened the would modify been less proud of her godfather. However Paris. To one of her inordinate vanity Another beast, a lioness, died at the foot of the stair-way of tha' "Poor father! How well do Iremember myself In ray thin print stricken with the bubonic plague that may been, certainly proved gown have Clara Ward and love of notoriety. Paris a pro- •By house in,the arms of the painter, its head, in dying agony, rest-* and disheveled My unconcern about dress at their beautiful villa" In could \u25a0 hair. total horrified Cairo find some excuse for her nature in lific field for the gratification of ;both. Ing on>her knees. \u25a0 the other pupils, who called me "little beggar."- But Icruelly avenged NEWSand bad died almost Immediately. her parentage. >._•"?';_- V;• -, \u25a0 '-_. , but week her -rli She had been a in new The charm which protected Rosa Bonheur from beasts myself. Imade pen and The f report the dread of the "fun-*! ink caricatures of them and took care not stated She was the daughter of Captain school when she disappeared, and after gle eye. There, somethmg to flatter. BWfi_____(Mp<_Pt scourge .had attacked him during a mad Ward, Eber seeemed'to lie in her was courageous and] a was giving over the richest man in Michigan-" who eighteen days,' in which half the detective mild Inher regard which overpowered them. Those kindly gray eyes "After particularly, funny caricature they would lock me up in celebration he, the birth at death, capital seeking cellar, sketching my of sons by death the time of his was possessed force of the. French wat had nothing of the fear, nor yet. the challenge of hatred so usual to the where Iwould Joyfully pass the time cat 'twin the Princess.' His of thousands of acres of pine her, was In garret a looking every conceivable was kept, she was lands and she discovered the " of the' human eye when at ferocious 'animals. Rosa In attitude. When they discovered how much Ipre- from'the Princess and the biggest ,ships on in Bonheu&i ferred the cellar to the schoolroom the cat was taken away, as well placed under narcotics. The next news of fleet of the Great student . the artier Latin. looked upon them as fellow creatures. j as paper pencil. by Lakes, as well as a reputation that was was taken back to her seminary. It*Is said that she had. but little love for family life and that shaj the and the affair wire '.was .that the Princess anywhere 'She any "The next time they put me the story. not envied west of New York. When her. mother reached home after the had never been attached to one half as much as to her horses ami! In the cellar Iused the burnt ends of denied' whole Insanity developed nearly all of no matches to caricature the cut out of paper In his ten miles drive from the school she was cattle. She never, married and romance' or love affair ever came to teachers. These Icolored, Princess a •\u25a0 The life of the has been .progeny and Indications of the .' astounded; the notice public. » like paper dolls, and stuck to the celling of the with century play In , same at.being greeted upon getting of the recitation- room sixteenth modern set- weakness early But her studio was always frequented by a chewed bread paste. When the pupils filed in for their recitations tings; .romp greenwood; manifested themselves In out of her carriage by Clara herself. The forest crowd of artists! they spasms a ' in- the' the. his daughter. girl being and men of affairs among whom she and,* went oft into of laughter at these pictures. Finally the good story Gypsy explained later that disinclined moved in her careless toilet laughter old " of "the Baron and ' Of his schooling nonchalant manner, chatting, smoking a cigarette cause of the undue was discovered and Iwas severely pun- the fay ladye high degree," children there was Lizzie, who for further she had climbed ip and then returning-.] ished. re of and ' died In an asylum; there was Fred,. who on top of the carriage and for ten mil.* to her work. She treated peer and pauper with like Btraight-forwartlr! right \u25a0 has .she played It. ,From simplicity. "Mylast escapade was too much for their good humor. Iorgan- well .the killed himself; there was Milton,.who be- provided a" spectacle that startled even worshiped \u25a0 Idols:of her own set- Although seventy-seven. died, a girls' brigade and made through first she came an outlaw ;. was Charlie, when she she retained to the end] ized a mock battle charge the ting up, them over as there who the Frenchmen. seminary garden, knocking oft the only to kick with became an outcast, and »Henry, _ days her alertness and activity. The warm blood of the South ran Inher blossoms in lieu of actual enemies' Utterly \u25a0 • who be- Clara's school ended there and Mrs. heads. little thought as* she builded. - de- Insane. By -a, second marriage - veins and the Parisian spirit rested. on her lips. Her face was pc- • conventionality '; came • Ward, who. had become Mrs. Alexander culiarly attractive, , "Bien! then Iwas sent home in disgrace. void of. she ,• has flouted which Eber Ward contracted there were pensive, delicate and yet solid. Mere Catherine ad- conventions, and, ; ' - Cameron,. took her. to Nice. Itwas there painting, d'Auvergne/'was" vised my father to apprentice me to a This he unwill- the jworld and .'Itsi hav- additional children— and Clara, the she the Prince de Chlmay, and after Her last entitled "Vache et Taureau dressmaker. ing flouted, ridiculed, j ,:has laughingly ' met hung the Paris this year. pictures ingly did. After cutting up some material Into she Princess Chlmay. The one disgraced him- a they were In Salon Like all her other it was' beautiful horses' sacrificed every that Is supposed * short ', courtship married., the subject of much wonder. heads the dressmaker refused to have me. Icould sketch, but I<" Jewel to self in Paris. ItIs \u25a0of:the other this tale Hardly had;the >honeymoon waned before would not stitch." glisten in woman's crown, and for eight Is being told. '.'.-.Other animal painters, say the critics, surpass her, in color, com- i • there burst on the Belgian court— which position and even in correctness of drawing, but ; About this time Papa Bonheur began to recognise daugh- years set a pace that [has :kept . awagglng When Clara first felt the taint that a nowhere in the his- that his tongues was her husband had taken her— scandal tory of art is found such vigor such knowledge of ter had genius which could not be quenched and he began to instruct three-fourths of the of three con- in her she was at school In London, where proportion, in nature , IB; and the animaL family tinents part a similar .in '. and in which more surprising a woman. and direct her. The lived on the sixth floor, under the and of fourth. her mother had taken her from Detroit mystery to « but a roof, Just who pleased ; that which little before All are agreed . that "Vache : . d'Auvergne," and here Rosa tasted the first sweet of happiness,*yiW**"'*wfor the- •*'""little IThere have been those were * .". to complete* ;her education. Something < .-; et Taureau nalnted -r ,; *' while the shadows were fitting girl .was Allowed to give her to write her who have v said that the ihappened day and \u25a0 Pago Thirty- gathering, is a * " conclusion*' to Rosa talents *uUOjDJ, of one beoause of it she Continued on two. Bonheur's life work. \u25a0—