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236 ROSA BONHEUR.
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became quiet Lands and a calm pencil congenial and , a her piece ideas activit of grew y charcoal of clearer the , studio or ; a she lump , her began of excited to clay understand . feelings In the
herselfand to , devise the path which nature had marked out for purposeless her . As , this child change became took rap p idl lace she y transformed in drew her and mind modelled into , the the de from earnest sultory morning , self and
to consc ni i ht ous , with determined enthusiastic woman ardour : ; and her father , amazed at her g , and perceiving at last the real bent of her nature , devoted
with himself progress course the of seriousl , greatest preparatory y interest to her stud instruction and y ; and care . then , and He sent took superintended her her to throug the h her Louvre a serious efforts , to
the works of the old masters , as a discipline for her eye , her copy hand Surrounded , and her jud and gment stimulated . bthe lorious creations of the great
too painters much , absorbed the first to in enter her model the gallery y to be g , and conscious the last of to anything leave it , that and labors with zeal
went " I on have _aroLind " never remarks her seen , Rosa an M examp . pursued Jousselin le of her such Director application of unwavering , the and such Louvre ard , in . for work ,
describing , the deportment of the young artist in her visits to that establishment . color and wealth of form of the Italian schoolsthe
loffcy Dutch The idealism alike splendid excited of the her Germans enthusia , sm and ; and the she broad studied naturalism them all of with , the
equal To aid deli , g her ht , father and cop in ied his them arduous with strugg equal le felicity for the . support of his children
famil the immedi y , now at increased object of by Rosa the 's birth ambition of two and younger the admirable fidelit , was y
e , of soon her gratified copies . ensuring She gained for them but a a small speedy sum sale for became , this each filial ; but desire important so great was
was her industry , that these earnings soon an item One in day the , famil when y she resources had at the just . put the finishing elderl touch lish to gentleman a copy of
attention stopped Les Berc beside / ers exclaimed cV' her Arcadie easel , , " Your , and Louvre copy having , mo , examined n an enfant , y her is Eng superb work , with faultless much !
great Persevere artist , as ! " you The have she stranger begun went ' , s home and prediction I that prop evening hecy gave that the with you young her will head painter be full a
much pleasure , and of Rosa joyous was visions now in of her future seventeenth success . year , vowed to Art as the aim _landscaxoehistoricaland
rence Genre and occupation for painting either with ; of when her equal , happening life assiduit , cultivating y to , but make without a stud any _, y of decided a goat prefe , , she
much enchanted with this new attempt , that she thenceforth was devoted so herself to the cultivation of the peculiar province in which to
she has since attained such brilliant results . Too poor procure
236 Rosa Bonheur.
236 ROSA _BONHEUR .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 236, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/20/
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