The eldest of four children, Rosa Bonheur received drawing lessons in the studio of her father, <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/raymond-bonheur">Raymond Bonheur</a> (1796-1849). From early on she preferred to draw animals and went to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris to study and draw them. She first exhibited at the Salon of 1841. The family moved to the suburbs where Bonheur had an even