Rosa Bonheur
1822-1899
French Realist Artist and Sculptor
Bonheur is now widely thought of as the most famous female painter of the 19th century.
After her father’s death, she moved into the house of her childhood friend and lover Nathalie Micas and lived with her until Micas’ death in 1889.
Late in her life, she found another lover: two years before she died, she met and married Anna Klumpke, a much younger American painter.
Bonheur, Micas, and Klumpke are buried side-by-side in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, under a tombstone reading ‘Friendship is Divine Affection’.
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