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On every Thursday, I am introducing the stories about various artists and their paintings with the title “Interesting Art Stories”.

The 23rd story for this week is “Ploughing in the Nivernais” by a French artist Rosa Bonheur.

“Ploughing in the Nivernais” is a painting by a French artist Rosa Bonheur in 1849, depicting twelve oxen ploughing the land in two groups of six. The painting is said to be inspired by the opening scene of the 1846 novel "La Mare au Diable” by a French female novelist George Sand.

Rosa Bonheur was a French artist, born on March 16, 1822, and died on May 25, 1899, who was primarily a painter of animals, but also a sculptor, in a realist style.

The Nivernais, the area around Nevers, was famous for its Charolais cattle, a French breed of taurine beef cattle, and the Charolais cattle played an important role in the agricultural revolution in the region in the 19th century.

In this painting, farmers are ploughing the land on a sunny autumn day. However, the farmers are playing a supporting role, while the oxen are playing a leading role. The freshly-ploughed land in the foreground is prominent to the viewers, and the landscape in the background is basking in sunlight.

The clarity and use of light in this painting are similar to the Dutch paintings which Bonheur had studied as part of her art education. One of the examples is Paulus Potter, a Dutch painter who specializes in painting animals in the landscape.

Mary Blume, who is a critic of New York Times claimed that "Bonheur was the most famous female painter of the 19th century and perhaps the most famous female painter of all time."

Bonheur's most famous paintings are “The Horse Fair”, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 and are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City, USA, and the “Ploughing in the Nivernais” that I introduce today.

This painting somewhat resembles “Oxen going to work” by Constant Troyon.

“Ploughing in the Nivernais”, painted by Rosa Bonheur, who was renowned for animal painting, was commissioned by the French government and received a First Medal at the Salon of 1849, and is now held in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

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