The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11

pieces of bread, which answered for both
breakfast and lunch. So he took her to
his own house to share his monday lunch.
Yet at this time, when her poverty
was greatest, she was on the eve of her
first success.
The two animal pictures that first gave
her fame were of the house-top pets.
They were exhibited at the Paris salon
in 1S41, under the titles of Two Rabbits
and IA Goat and Sheep She was then
only nineteen years old.
After her success in having her pic
lures accepted in 1S41 at the salon she
made three paintings for the next years
exhibition. These were: animals in
Pasture "a Cow Lying in a Meadow"
and "a Horse for Sale For twelve
years after that she had pictures at each
years salon. They became one of the
regularly looked-for features
In 1853 appeared the painting which es-
tablished her fame, 1.-The Horse Fair"
now in the Metropolitan Art museum, in
New York. She sold this originally for
$1,000, which at that time was fortune
in France. Ernest Gambart was the
purchaser Upon receiving the money it
seemed such a large amount to Mile
Bonheur that she voluntarily offered to
paint for him a quarter-size copy of it.
She gave this to NJ. Gambart so that he
could have an engraving made of it and
recover some of the original cost price
of his picture. M. Gambart afterward
sold the original at a loss to William P.
Wright, of New York, for $4,000. He In
turn sold it to A T. Stewart, the gr 1T
New York dry goods king, for se' raj
times that price. When Stewart art
collection was sold, in 1887, CO.. .elius
Vanderbilt bought 1.-THE Horse Fair for
the Metropolitan Art museum, and he
paid for it $55, O00 With 1.-THE Horse Fair
money Rosa Bonheur was able to buy
the beautiful chateau of By, in Foun-
tainebleau forest, near Paris, where she
died, rich old woman, the other day.
This chateau was built originally as a
hunting lodge by Marie de Medic. Mile.
Bonheur remodeled it, making the upper
story q large studio. It's floors were
covered with the skins of huge animals
bulls, bears, lonesome of which their
artist owner had hunted and shot, and
some were the preserved skins of pets
This studio as often as not contained
lion, a tiger, ferocious dog that would
strike a visitor with terror on entering
Rosa Bonheur's influence over animals
seemed to increase as she grew older
She was as fearless of lions as she was
of cats, and seemed to inspire in those
fierce beasts the same affection as in
domestic animals. Mile. Bonheur went
into the cages of lions and tigers without
whip or any weapon. The animals never
attacked her. When they became ac-
quainted with her they would put up
their heads to be patted and scratched
She even took to her home In the Fon-
t9inebleau forest lion that was so
fierce that circus managers would not
keep him. In Rosa Bonheur's hands he
became tame and affectionate Day af-
ter day she would sit near him, paint
Ing his magnificent figure, and OCCASION
ally rewarding his patient posing with
caress. When she would become so
absorbed in her work as to forget to
do this, the lion would gently put up
his paw to attract her attention and get
the accustomed patting
A lioness belonging to Mile. Bonheur
died with her head in the artists lap
In her huge paws she held the hand of
her mistress till death loosened her
grasp.
Those who saw Rosa Bonheur moving
among these fierce beasts and among
droves of wild cattle with perfect fear
lessness and safety said that the charm
which protected her seemed to lie in the
artists eyes Her kindly gray eyes had