Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 41939-h.htm or 41939-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41939/41939-h/41939-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41939/41939-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/rosabonheur00cras Masterpieces in Colour Edited by M. Henry Roujon ROSA BONHEUR (1822-1899) * * * * * _IN THE SAME SERIES_ REYNOLDS VELASQUEZ GREUZE TURNER BOTTICELLI ROMNEY REMBRANDT BELLINI FRA ANGELICO ROSSETTI RAPHAEL LEIGHTON HOLMAN HUNT TITIAN MILLAIS LUINI FRANZ HALS CARLO DOLCI GAINSBOROUGH TINTORETTO VAN DYCK DA VINCI WHISTLER RUBENS BOUCHER HOLBEIN BURNE-JONES LE BRUN CHARDIN MILLET RAEBURN SARGENT CONSTABLE MEMLING FRAGONARD DÜRER LAWRENCE HOGARTH WATTEAU MURILLO WATTS INGRES COROT DELACROIX FRA LIPPO LIPPI PUVIS DE CHAVANNES MEISSONIER GÉRÔME VERONESE VAN EYCK FROMENTIN MANTEGNA PERUGINO HENNER * * * * * [Illustration: PLATE I.--THE LION MEDITATING (Rosa Bonheur Museum) According to artists, the lion is the most difficult of all animals to paint, on account of the prodigious mobility of his physiognomy. Rosa Bonheur was able, thanks to her inimitable art, to catch and reproduce the fugitive facial expressions of the kingly beast,--expressions that the artist succeeded in securing during a visit to a certain menagerie, and which she managed to record with a most surprising vigour and fidelity.] ROSA BONHEUR by FR. CRASTRE Translated from the French by Frederic Taber Cooper Illustrated with Eight Reproductions in Colour Frederick A. Stokes Company New York--Publishers Copyright, 1913, by Frederick A. Stokes Company [Illustration: August, 1913] The·Plimpton·Press Norwood·Mass·U·S·A CONTENTS Page Childhood and Youth 11 The First Successes 22 The Years of Glory 45 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Plate I. The Lion Meditating Frontispiece Rosa Bonheur Museum II. The Ass 14 Rosa Bonheur Studio, at By III. The Horse Fair 24 National Gallery, London IV. Ploughing in the Nivernais 34 Luxembourg Museum, Paris V. Ossian's Dream 40 Rosa Bonheur Studio, Peyrol Collection VI. The Duel 50 Collection of Messrs. Lefèvre, London