
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000949Cattle at Rest on a Hillside in the Alps
by Rosa Bonheur
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left: Rosa Bonheur 1885
Provenance
Albert A. Munger (died 1898), Chicago; on loan to the Art Institute from at least 1894 [see Art Institute of Chicago 1894]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1901; lent to Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College on long-term loan, 1922–1950.
Exhibition history
Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, Long-term loan, 1922–1950.
Publications
Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1894), p. 61, no. 110. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1895), p. 73, no. 110. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1896), p. 80, no. 110. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1898), p. 101, no. 110. Charles Francis Browne, “The Permanent Collections in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago. VII – The Munger Collection,” 3, 1 (1898), pp. 10, 13 (ill.). “Chicago, ILL.: The Art Institute of Chicago,” in American Art Annual 1898 (London: Macmillan & Co., 1899), p. 143, 110. “Rosa Bonheur is Dead,” Chicago Daily Tribune (May 27, 1899), p. 3. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1901), pp. 171, no. 179. René Reyrol, “The Art of Rosa Bonheur, or Rosa Bonheur: Her Life and Work,” Masters in Art 4, 44 (1903), p. 42. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1904), p. 177, no. 179. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1907), p. 189, no. 179. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), p. 176, no. 179. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), p. 120, no. 179. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 124, no. 179. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), p. 124, no. 179. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p. 28, no. 179. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 127, no. 179. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 27. Rosalia Shriver, Rosa Bonheur: With a Checklist of Works in American Collections (Philadelphia: The Arts Alliance Press, 1982), pp. 53, 66 (ill.). Patricia Pate Havlice, World Painting Index, Second Supplement 1890–1989, vol. 1 (Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1995), p. 155. Anna Klumpke, Rosa Bonheur: The Artist’s (Auto)biography (Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1997), p. 279 Ruth Krueger Meyer and Madeleine Fidell Beaufort, “The Rage for Collecting: Beyond Pittsburg in the Gilded Age,” in Gabriel P. Weisberg, DeCourcy E. McIntosh, and Alison McQueen, Collecting in the Gilded Aged: Art Patronage in Pittsburgh, 1890–1910, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh: Frick Art & Historical Center, 1997), p. 325.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Rosa Bonheur (French, 1822–1899)
- Date
- 1885
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 54.9 × 66.4 cm (21 5/8 × 26 1/8 in.); Framed: 76.9 × 87.2 × 8.3 cm (30 1/4 × 34 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- A. A. Munger Collection
- Accession no.
- 1901.451
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