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Throughout all her varied studies , Raymond Bonheur was his daughter's constant and only teacher . M . Leon Coignet , to whoni
she had been presented , and of whom she has been said , erroneously , to have been a pupil , took great interest in her progress , and warmly
encouraged her to persevere in her efforts ; but she never took a lesson of . any other teacher than her father and Nature .
Raymond Bonheur , with his family , now occupied a small sixth story apartment , in the Rue Rumfort . His two sons , Auguste and
Isidore , had also devoted themselves to the artist career—the first as a painter , the second as a sculptor—under his paternal auspices ;
and the whole family , warmly attached to each other , and merry and hopeful in spite of their poverty , labored diligently together
in the same little studio . From daylight till dusk Rosa was always at her easel , singing like a linnet , the busiest' and merriest
of them . all . In the evening , the frugal dinner despatched , and the lamp lightedshe would spend several hours in drawing
illustra-, tions for books , and animals for prints and . for albums , or in moulding little groups of oxen , sheep , & c , for the figure-dealers ,
thus earning an additional contribution to the family purse . Rosa delighted in birds , of which she had many in the studio ;
but it grieved her to see them confined . To her great joy , one of her brothers contrived a net which he fastened to the outer side of
the -window , so that they could be safely let out of their cages . She had also a beautiful sheep , with long * silky wool , the most docile
and intelligent of quadrupeds , which she kept on the leads outside the windows of their apartment ; the leads aforesaid forming a
terrace , and being converted by her into a garden , gay with _honejrsucklescobeas , convolvulus , nasturtiums , and sweet peas . As the
, sheep could not well descend six flights of stairs , yet needed occasional exercise and change of diet , Isidore used to place it gravely
on his shoulders , and carry it down to a neighbouring croft , where it browsed on the fresh grass to its heart ' s content ; after which he
would again take it on , his shoulders , and carry it back to its aerial residence . Thus carefully tended , the animal passed two years
contentedly on the terrace , affording ' to Rosa and her brothers an admirable modelalways ready , and always instructive .
, . It was in the Fine Arts Exhibition of 1841 that Rosa Bonheur made her first _aj ) pearance before the critical Areopagus of Paris ,
attracting the favorable notice both of connoisseurs and public , by two charming little groups of a goat , sheep , and rabbits . The
following year she exhibited three paintings , viz . : — " Animals in a Pasture' * "A Cow Lying * in a Meadow , " and " A Horse for Sale , "
, which attracted still more notice , the first of these being specially remarkable for its exquisite rendering of the atmospheric effects of
evening * , and its blending of poetic sentiment with bold fidelity to fact . From this period she appeared in all the Paris Exhibitions , and
in many of those of the principal provincial towns ; her reputation
rising every year , and several bronze and silver medals being
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 239, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/23/