Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) was a French artist and sculptor known for her artistic realism and paintings of animals. Trained by her father from the age of twelve, Bonheur was admired by Queen Victoria and was decorated with the French Legion of Honour by the Empress Eugénie.
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- One of Bonheur's best-known paintings, The Horse Fair or Le marché aux chevaux, features in a transitional scene in Don't Eat the Pictures when a Met Museum guard bends over to dust the painting's frame, just missing Mr. Snuffleupagus, Big Bird, and Prince Sahu passing by on their way to the Temple of Dendur.