Cattle at Rest on a Hillside in the Alps

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1885

Rosa Bonheur (French, 1822–1899)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Rosa Bonheur
Title: Cattle at Rest on a Hillside in the Alps
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1885
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: Rosa Bonheur 1885
Dimensions: 54.9 × 66.4 cm (21 5/8 × 26 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: A. A. Munger Collection
Reference Number: 1901.451
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Charles Francis Browne, “The Permanent Collections in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago. VII – The Munger Collection,” 3, 1 (1898), pp. 10, 13 (ill.).
“Chicago, ILL.: The Art Institute of Chicago,” in American Art Annual 1898 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1899), p. 143, 110.
“Rosa Bonheur is Dead,” Chicago Daily Tribune (May 27, 1899), p. 3.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), pp. 171, no. 179.
René Reyrol, “The Art of Rosa Bonheur, or Rosa Bonheur: Her Life and Work,” Masters in Art 4, 44 (1903), p. 42.
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Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 27.
Rosalia Shriver, Rosa Bonheur: With a Checklist of Works in American Collections (Philadelphia: The Arts Alliance Press, 1982), pp. 53, 66 (ill.).
Patricia Pate Havlice, World Painting Index, Second Supplement 1890–1989, vol. 1 (Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1995), p. 155.
Anna Klumpke, Rosa Bonheur: The Artist’s (Auto)biography (Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1997), p. 279
Ruth Krueger Meyer and Madeleine Fidell Beaufort, “The Rage for Collecting: Beyond Pittsburg in the Gilded Age,” in Gabriel P. Weisberg, DeCourcy E. McIntosh, and Alison McQueen, Collecting in the Gilded Aged: Art Patronage in Pittsburgh, 1890–1910, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh: Frick Art & Historical Center, 1997), p. 325.

Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, Long-term loan, 1922–1950.

Albert A. Munger (died 1898), Chicago; on loan to the Art Institute from at least 1894 [see Art Institute of Chicago 1894]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1901; lent to Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College on long-term loan, 1922–1950.

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