Lot #67: Framed Litho "The Horse Fair' By Rosa Bonheur

This is a very old framed lithograph by Rosa Bonheur of one of her most famous paintings, 'The Horse Fair' which lives in the NY Metroplitan Museum of Art.  The frame itself is amazing, but the back of this frame speaks to how old it is and that her signature is burned into the wood.  Measurements are 33 x 23. Here's what I found out about the artist from Wikipedia: Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalire). She also made sculptures in a realist style.[1] Her paintings include Ploughing in the Nivernais,[2] first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now in the Muse d'Orsay in Paris, and The Horse Fair (in French: Le march aux chevaux),[3] which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century.[clarification needed][4]It has been claimed that Bonheur was openly lesbian, as she lived with her partner Nathalie Micas for over 40 years until Micas's death, after which she lived with American painter Anna Elizabeth Klumpke.[5] However, others remark that nothing supports this claim.[6]