Cheval de Labeur (Workhorse)

Rosa Bonheur, French, 1822 - 1899

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1867

Oil on canvas

Overall: 14 1/2 × 21 1/4 in. (36.9 × 54 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Russell C. Johnson, Class of 1915

P.957.2

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Nazi-Era Provenance Research

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, lower right: Rosa Bonheur 1861

Course History

ARTH 51, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Katie Hornstein, Fall 2012

ARTH 51, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Katie Hornstein, Fall 2012

SART 25.01, Painting I, Viktor Witkowski, Winter 2022

SART 25.02, Painting I, Viktor Witkowski, Winter 2022

Exhibition History

Curator's Choice: Dartmouth College Permanent Collection, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 26, 1976-January 16, 1977.

Provenance

Acquired by Russell Campbell Johnson (1892-1957), South Orleans, Massachusetts, date unknown; given to present collection, 1957.

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