Château de By

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Rosa Bonheur's atelier in Thomery, 2009-09-19 004.jpg

The Château de By, otherwise the Musée de l'atelier Rosa Bonheur ("Museum of the Studio of Rosa Bonheur") is a museum run by the town of Thomery in the French department of Seine-et-Marne, on the edge of the Fontainebleau Forest. It is named after the former town of By, near Thomery. It was closed for refurbishment in 2016[1] but has since reopened.[2]

History[]

The building was purchased in 1859 by the French animal painter Rosa Bonheur, who moved her studio there. Aged 37, she was at the height of her popularity and made the building her home and studio for forty years, with pens for her animals in its park. She rebuilt the château to make it comfortable and to add a vast neo-Gothic studio room with the space and light she needed. It was in the château that Empress Eugenie presented her with her Légion d'Honneur in 1865.

The museum mainly consists of objects relating to Bonheur's everyday life (including a Native American costume given her by Buffalo Bill) and the building has remained unchanged since her death in 1899, other than the sale of all the paintings it once contained. It was put on the 'Maisons des Illustres' list in 2011, though the property around it was put on sale in summer 2014.

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References[]

  1. ^ "Le musée Rosa Bonheur" (in French). Thomery. Retrieved 7 July 2016. Attention : Le musée Rosa Bonheur est fermé au public.
  2. ^ Sciolino, Elaine (November 2020). "The Redemption of Rosa Bonheur". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 3 June 2021.

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Coordinates: 48°23′46″N 2°47′00″E / 48.3961°N 2.7832°E / 48.3961; 2.7832

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