The Judgment of Paris
“Some fifty women had exhibited at the Salon des Refusés in 1863, or thirteen percent of the total number of participating painters, while more than a hundred showed work at the official Salon during any given year.2 Few of them won medals or were household names, and of the 162 paintings bought by the government from the 1868 Salon, only four were by women.3Over the previous decades, however, a number of women had managed to forge successful artistic careers for themselves, the most renowned be...ing Rosa Bonheur. Daughter of a little-known landscapist, Bonheur had first shown her work at the Salon in 1841, at the age of nineteen, after which she went on to enjoy success with her animal paintings. By the 1860s she had won several Salon medals, received government commissions, been awarded the Legion of Honor (the first woman to receive it), and earned the admiration of numerous collectors and connoisseurs. She was especially popular in England, where in 1855 her most famous work, The Horse Fair, was sold for 40,000 francs.MoreLess
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