The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me. - Rosa Rosa Bonheur did what she wanted, Victorian ideals be damned (*gasp*). She skipped school to study livestock painting (in the unladylike outdoors! *gasp*), she sneered at marriage (She even said "As far as males go, I only like the bulls I paint!" *gasp*) and she smoked cigarettes (so unbecoming! *gasp*). She crept into Paris abbatoirs at night to study animal bodies for her paintings, and she later obtained special police authorization to dress as a man, so that she could wear loose trousers and blouses as she sketched her subjects in the countryside.
A Woman to Know: Rosa Bonheur
A Woman to Know: Rosa Bonheur
A Woman to Know: Rosa Bonheur
The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me. - Rosa Rosa Bonheur did what she wanted, Victorian ideals be damned (*gasp*). She skipped school to study livestock painting (in the unladylike outdoors! *gasp*), she sneered at marriage (She even said "As far as males go, I only like the bulls I paint!" *gasp*) and she smoked cigarettes (so unbecoming! *gasp*). She crept into Paris abbatoirs at night to study animal bodies for her paintings, and she later obtained special police authorization to dress as a man, so that she could wear loose trousers and blouses as she sketched her subjects in the countryside.