At the Met, for example, Hessel points visitors to The Horse Fair (1852–55), a 17-foot-wide work by French artist Rosa Bonheur, which hangs in a room filled with female nudes by male artists.
Rosa Bonheur was one of the most successful French artists of the 19th century and the first woman to buy a chateau with her own earnings, and to receive the Legion of Honour– yet until recently she’d ...