Relay Hunting
- Date
- 1887
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- made in
- Thomery, Île-de-France region, France, Europe
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 206
- Dimensions
- 18 x 26 in. (45.7 x 66 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Justina G. Catlin in memory of her husband, Daniel Catlin
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 7:1917
NOTES
Rosa Bonheur was known for her careful study of animals and even maintained stables at her Paris studio. She was a pioneering feminist who enjoyed notoriety by dressing publicly in men’s clothes and smoking cigars. This work represents a relay hunt whereby riders would use fresh groups of horses to relieve their exhausted animals. Bonheur has precisely rendered the anatomy of the horses’ forms as well as the sheen of their coats in brown, white, and gray.
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