Given government approval to cross-dress, Rosa Bonheur was the first woman given this French award
Her most well-known paintings are Ploughing in the Nivernais
, first exhibited ... A French government commission led to Bonheur's first great 
success,... [DOC] [TLE] Women Artists in Nineteenth-Century France | Essay | Heilbrunn ... [PAR] Rosa Bonheur was trained by her father Raimond, a drawing teacher and ... of 
Leopold of Belgium, and the Legion of Honor in France (the first woman to be so
... [DOC] [TLE] Rosa Bonheur | The Horse Fair | The Met - Metropolitan Museum of Art [PAR] This, Bonheur's best-known painting, shows the horse market held in Paris on the 
tree-lined ...