ROSA BONHEUR (French, 1822-1899)

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ROSA BONHEUR (French, 1822-1899)

Spanish Muleteers Crossing the Pyrenees

signed and dated Rosa Bonheur 1857 lower right--oil on canvas
45 x 78in. (115 x 200cm.)
Provenance
E. Gambert, London; sale, Christie's, May 3-4, 1861, lot 276 (L1995) Pennell
Knowles
Thomas Walker, Berkswell Hall, Warwickshire; sale, Christie's, June 2, 1888, lot 69 (L3780)
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London
Possibly Albert Brassey, 1890
Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge; sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, May 14, 1976, lot 29
Literature
A. Klumpke, Rosa Bonheur, Paris, 1908, p. 424 (illustrated p. 201 as Bourriquaires Traversant les Pyrenées)
Exhibited
Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1867
Possibly London, Whitechapel (St. Judes), 1890, no. 21