Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-09-13
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~ birth Rosa Bonheur belongs to France.
by the rights ofgenius, to the world.
E She lSStheamos Stingpished female painter
living or as5d. NO lotheE has won 50 Mids a
3,tame-nezo boilt5 reputation On so broad
ESand firm n basis. Wherever Artsis known and
talked OF, Rosa Bonheuris known and talked of.
eln France, England, America, Germany and the
smaller I kingdoms of Europe, the name of Rosa
-Bonheur is u household word.
at twelve o'clock onthe eleventh of March
+ we GeEe setd6YnEa Mo- S82 Rue dIAssasE atfdf
Va gate and down toEthe f6Tt6sp
endsofa gaTdeniE here. We entered theyesii ibHlo5
OF OF asna1 = present rssid
.7ee oI Rosa Bonheur. We sent up our card, and
IN a few moments were seated in her atelier-
"a large, square, oaken furnished room on the
second etdge7z5 taking with the little painter
with as mpeh familiarity as;if We had known
4her all 6hrsRte time. In clear, rather thin
voice, Rosa ran on about art and art-fe for half
an hour, only leaving US room to slip in the
, points of ofconverSation edgeluise
a You have accomplished much, mademoi-
seile'" we said, glancing ut large picture on
thessasel, called ''k1s ltoutons y (The sheep9 =
''HsS" She replied, .sIbhaye bsepsa 8aithfIg|
eopisano e99as zESed T
expressed to the best Of my ability the IDEAS
and feelings with which she has inspired me-
5s art is an absorbent-a tyrant 1T demands
: heart, brain, soul, body. the entircness of its
gotary Nothing less will winits highest favor
fife sEeqtn u sashe aiF tkbreaIhss shqE qEhE
{else5sSteel nethiAga else ssthi1k ndtRingl else
My soul finds in it the most complete satisfac.
Ition.
(. You have not married, We said.
Have not SAID that married Art9 What
could do with any other husband2 am not
fit to be wife in the common acceptaton oil
ithat term. Men must marry women who have
mo absorbent, ,Enozidol:E BntztheFsubect is pain a
ffulaSiye esuae some other topic. ST q
"YouFdonSt Z love society yashwe~said.s aes4a.8ak
eyes, do she replied with an air of impa.
thence; "but select that which pleases me
most love the socicty-ofnature;.t the company
sofhorses, bulls, cows, sheep, dogs-all animals
often have large receptions where they are
t7tthe only guests also like the society, books
and tho thoughts of'ghcat minds 4 like George
SandssiS isia great genius The wo.ld his
wropesl her {fsooietykSeu e5utragsdSheF EGoIto sse
Eher. Yous win like her y lta2esno taste f6r5
sgeHera societyArio interest iraits frivolfties-1
only seek TO be known tllr6ughmy works
! If the world feel and understand them, have
succeeded"
b ''HaSessPps given Rights q aasas
81 "Women's rightsl-women's nonsense" she
answered. "Women should seek to establish
their rights by good and great swork and not
by s6nyentiqfsss my afIhpsl got on a5cony
TO debate the question Of my ability to paint
'lHarche Chepaua,' CFhe Horse Fair,) for
which England would ,pay ulc, forty thousand
francs, the decision would have been against
me. felt the power within me TO paint l
cultivated it, and lave produced works that
atlaveYwon the favorable tverdctS4oEa thegreat
Judges. have no patience with women who
ask permission to think !'' - s-.a-~et ~ ~.
u At this moment two or three visitors entered,
sEand while Rosa was occupied with thcn We
busted ourselves by making notes ofgthtDg
E the lafalieF. - - 9 A d
On theEYa1l stbe left Of ths epfrencc was b
,head Of u buck with long, branching horns; one
sof IL goat, another of a bull; an imperfect skel-
etOn of horse, and the skins OF various ami.
mails. At the farther crdlof the room stood a
large oaken case filed with stuffed birds OF all
sizes and descriptions, and on the top Of it, in a
: perfect state of. preservation, we're eagle,
hawk, sapsowl md .aazPaErot 3 otIs the Mallseu
face the door, were a pair OF landscapes repre-
kenting storm rushing between the rocks, and
clouds breaking on their tops. The third aud
fourth walls were taken up with the busts of
rshOrScs, cows, sheep, dogs, cats wolves &C., in
bronze and splaSter, modelled by r s2osa's own
hand. j Allsabout the swaxed floor we're spread
out theEpreserved skins Of cows, bulls stays:
with their great uplifted horns, and hears goats,
Sheep, dpss and wolves with their fierce eyes.
giariiig upon us.
s The impression these @ild pieces loficarpetipg
5made on US, on entering the atelier, was almost
startling. 1t. seemed more Ikea den of wild
beaStssthanz the GteEleT Of lady. Il & 5 ssss3 - -
After short Irritation withthe parrot, which
spoke tOlerablc: FFcuch, we took our leave
promising TO meet R0s0 at the School Of De.
sign for Women, on the next Friday, where she
goes once per week to give lesson. This
death she became its sole mistress hut now en-.
trusts it mostly ito the care Tof her SISTER and
brother. There aTe about fifty regular pupils
who receive instruction gratis
Rosa 'Bonhetir hAs!traiiy proofs Of the reward
Of industry. If she wished to make small
1,,C dave 81 r.