Art is a tyrant : the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur
Hewitt, Catherine2020
Books, Manuscripts
Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits, she rejected marriage - and she wore trousers. But the society whose rules she spurned accepted her as one of their own, because of her genius for painting animals. She shared an intimate relationship with the eccentric, self-styled inventor Nathalie Micas, who nurtured the artist like a wife. Together Rosa, Nathalie, and Nathalie's mother bought a chateau and with Rosa's menagerie of animals the trio became one of the most extraordinary households of the day. Catherine Hewitt's compelling new biography is an inspiring evocation of a life lived against the rules.
Main title:
Art is a tyrant : the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur / Catherine Hewitt.
Author:
Hewitt, Catherine, author
Imprint:
London : Icon Books, 2020.
Collation:
448 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781785786211 (hbk)
Dewey class:
759.4759.4BON
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2916563