The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-13
A MORNING WITH ROSA BOYHEUR.


She Is the most distinguished female painter liv-
ing or dead. No orh r has won so wide A fame
no other bult reputation on so broad and firm a
basis. Wherever Art is known and talked Of Rosa
Banheur Is known and talked Of In France Enn-
land, America, Germany and the smaller Kingdoms
OF Europe, the name Rosa Bonheur is household
word
At twelve o'clock on the seventh of March we
were set down at No. 80 Rue d'Assas, and passed
through gate and down to the farther end of a
garden, where we entered the vestbule of a small
cottage house, the present residence of Rosa Bon
heur. We sent up our card, and in few moments
We're seated in her oteiier-a large square. oaken-
furnished room on the second eage-aikino with the
little painter with as much familiarity as il we had
known her all our lifetime In clear rather thin
voice. Rosa ran about art and artliee for hall an
hour, only leaving us room to slip in the points of
conversation edgewise.
''You have accomplished much, MademoseIe,"
we sald glanclng at large picture on the easel
called '.Les Woutons," (The Sheep.)
"Yes,' she replied, Il have been a faithful stu
dent since was TN years old. have cOpi-d no
master have studied nature and expressed to
the best of my ability the ideas and feelings with
which she has inspired me. Art is an absorbent
ttrant. 1t demands heart, brain, soul BODY, the
entlreness of its votary. Nothing less will win its
highest favor. | wed art 1t is my husband-my
world-my hte-dream-the air I breathe. | know
nothing ese-feel nothing else-think nothing else.
My soul finds in it the most complete satisfaction"
"Gou have not married." we said
Have not said that married Art? What
m mot
to be wife In the common acceptation of that term
Men must marry women who have no absorbent
no idol. But the subject is painful; give me some
other topic"
"1ou don't love socety?" we said.
"Yes do" she replied. with an air of imna-
tience. 'but | select that which pleases me- most
love the society of nature the Company of horses
bulls, cows, sheep, dogs-all animals. often have
large receptions where they the only guests |
also like the society of books and the thought. of
great minds. like George Sand, She is a great
genius. The world has wrOnged her-soci.ty out
ragrd her. Go to see her. You will like her. |
have no taste for general societv-no interest in its
fivolities. | only seek to be known through nv
works. If the world feel and undertand them, /
have sucreeded."
"Have YOU given the Women's Rights question
any attention ?" we asked.
''Women's rights !-womens nonsepsel" she
answered. ''Women should seek To establish their
rights by good and great works, and not by con-
ventl'ns. If had got up a convention to debate
the question of my ability to paint 'JIarche au
CheUd"r,' (The Horse Fair,) for which England
would pay me forty thousand francs. the decision
would have been against | felt the power
within me to paint. cultivated it, aud have rro-
duced works that have won the favorable vDrdcts of
the great judges. | have no patience with women
who ask permission to hnkp
At this moment two or three visiters entered
and while Rosa was occupied with them we
busted ourselves by making notes OF things in the
atelier.
On the wall to the left of the entrance was head
OF buck with long, branching horns; one nf a
goat another of bull; an imperfect skeleton of
morse, and the skins of various animals At the
farther end of the room stood large naken case
filled with stuffed birds of all sizes and .scIiptions
and on the top OF it, in perfect state OF prcserva-
ton, were an eagle a hawk an owl and a parrot
On the wall, emJace the door, were pair of land
scapes representing storm rushing between the
rocks, and clouds breaking on their tons The
third and fourth walls were taken up with the
6uss OF horses, cows. sheep dogs, cats, wolves &c.
IN bronze and plaster, modelled by RoSa's own
hand. All about the waXed floor were sDr cad out
the preserved skins of cows, bulls stags with their
great uplitted horns, and bears, goats sheep dogs
and wolves with their fierce eyes glaring upon
Us.
The impression these wild pieces of cqrpetinp
made on US, on entering the ae'ier, was almost
startling. 1t seemed more like den of wild beasts
than the atelier of a lldr.
After short Irritation with the parrot, which
spoke tolrrable French, we took leave, rrOmis-
ing to meet Rosa at the School of Design for Women
on the next Friday, where she gOrs once per week
to give lesson This school was founded by Ro as
father. At his death she becam' its sole mi ,ress,
but now entrusts it mostly to the of her sister
and brother. There are about fifty regular pupils
who receive instruction gratis.
Rosa Bonheur has many proofs of the reward of
industry. If she wished to make small fortune in
few days it would be easy for her to do it in Eng
land, by opening there exhibition of her pictures
and sketches. "Wdrche dur Cherau.c" (The Ho, Sc
Far,) which was exhibited at Williams and Ste
venss year or two ago, and which was so we'll re-
ceiVed by the New York press, was bought by Mr..
Gamner, an English editor, for forty thous nd rancs
When Rosa visited England she received like a
princess.
America also paid, the last year, ten thousand
dollars for "View in the Pyrenees''-one of her
least known pictures.
A rich Hollander, visiting her otelier recently
offered her thousand crowns for a small sketch
that she could have painted in two hours. at is
impossible to comply with your request" she said,
81 not inspired"
Mademoiselle BOnheur is below the medium
height of woman; in appearance, about thirty five
years; petite, with quick piercing blue eyes, and
brown hair, worn short and parted on the side like
bows. Her dress Il brown alpaca skirt sai Q
crinoline, with blouse jacket of black cloth. She
looked very boyi>h.
Mademoisee also has an ateler in the country,
where she spends much time. When in the dty
she wears the costume Of her SEX but never ven
lures outside the barrier except in her masculine
gear.
There many anecdotes in circulation about
the little painter. One day, when she returned
from the country, she found messenger awaiting
to announce to her the sudden illness of on nf her
young friends. Rosa did not wait to change her
male attire, but hastened to the bedside of the
Jung lady. In 4 few minutes after her arrival,
the doctor, who had been sent for entered and
seeing young man. (as he supposed from tAe
tume,) seated the side of the bed, with his arm
around the neck of the sick girl thought he was
intruder, and retreated with all possible speed.
"Oh! run after him He thinks Won are my lover,
and has gone and left me to die!" cried the sick
girl. Rosa flew down the stairs and soon returned
with the modest doctor, who said he did not wish
10 intrude.
On another occasion, Mademoisee bad tickets
sent her for the theatre She had an important
picture in hand, and continued at the easel till the
carriage was announced. eyes" said Rosa, 'fe
sUis prete; and away she went to the theatre
la. fine gentleman in the box to hers looked
her with surprise, turned up his nose, aft ctad
great disgust, and went into the veStibue To seek
the manager. Having found him, he went off in
rage:
''Wbo is this woman in the box next to mine, in
old calico dress, covered with paint and oii? The
odor is terrible. Turn her out Ifyou do not, [
will never enter your theatre again. 1t is an insult
to respectable people to admit such looking crea-
ture into the dress circle"
The manager went to the box, and in a moment
discovered who the offensive person was. Return
nr to the fine white -gloved gentleman. he informed
him that the lady no less than Mademoiselle
Rosa BOnheur, the great painter.
Rosa Bonheurr' he gasped. ''Who'd have
thought it? Make my apology to her. dare not
enter her presence agar" Home Journal
ANOTHER ScHooLNlsrREss SwrHDLED BY AN ADvER-
IT'S R-A Young woman made complaint at the
City Hall Police Court yesterday afternoon that
she had been duped bv young man aive tsing
for a governess to go South She found him at
Clinton Place Hotel last we k, when he represent.
ed himself as widower, having two children
his plantation, for whom he desired a governess
She accepted his terms, and came to the hotel
Monday afternoon with her baggage, in order to
leave early Tuesday. He sent her baggage
away by a cartman, and took rooms for the night,
registering their names as Mr. and Mrs. Bunce.
He next obtained from her gold watch and went
out, returning at four in the morning, intoxicated
When they got up he borrowed thirteen dollars
from her and absconded. Not able to obtain a
trace of him or of her baggage, she finally made
complaint before Alderman Brady Captain Leon
ard has the case to work up, and will succeed in
tracking the miscreant.
This instance fully demonstrates remark in the
Eveninq Post week since, that many of the adyer-
tsements for teachers and governesses to go south
were made by lioertines for the ''most atrociuVs
purposes As rule, more unsuspecting persons
do not exist than young schooImistresses and their
landable ambition to obtain situations where they
can honorably support themselves gives additional
iaciilty to arttul and designing take advan-
tage oftheir unprotected c'ndition.-N Y. Ev Post.
few days since, Timnthy Regain, brakeman
on the Galena and Chicago Union Railro ld, discov-
cred couple Of children under the wheels of
train of about to start from the freight depot,
in Detroit. He succeeded in rescuing them, but
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