The Horse ParadeDozens of horses charge through the fairgrounds, each hoof vibrating the ground, causing chaos. Some horses are white as if they were a royal person, and others a mysterious brown. Through all this chaos, Rosa Bonheur paints what is in front of her. His painting is called The Horse Fair. The painting itself measures 8 feet high by 16 feet wide.1 The Horse Fair is located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.1 Bonheur uses a panoramic view in his painting.2 The Horse Fair was inspired by the market to the horses that Rosa Bonheur used to visit on the Boulevard De l'Hôpital.1 The building at the top left of the painting is called the Asile de la Salpêtrière, which is located in Paris.3 The people on the hill in the corner upper right of the painting are potential customers evaluating the horses to see which horse to buy.1 Through this painting, Bonheur shows the power and magnificence of the horses as the owners of these horses use all their strength to control them.3 Bonheur has included a self-portrait of herself on a horse. in his painting, which can be placed next to the rearing black and white horses.4 The audience can notice the shadows that stand out from each of the horses. Shadows are created through the use of chiaroscuro. The shadows make the horses look more real, as if they are actually moving around the showground. The author will prove Bonheur's use of naturalism in his painting The Horse Fair by analyzing Bonheur in terms of historical context, anatomical accuracy, and structural elements. Rosa Bonheur was born on March 16, 1822 in Bordeaux, France.1 Rosa was the eldest of four children. children; her father was an art teacher and her mother was a musician.2 She came from a ...... middle of paper ...... is displayed in the table because one would actually experience the moment that Happiness capture.Sources: “Article 236.” :The Horse Fair. Internet. February 20, 2014. http://cristalrlindberg.blogspot.com/2012/04/horse-fair.html. Ashton, Dore and Denise Browne Hare. Rosa Happiness: A Life and a Legend. New York: Viking, 1981. Print. “Oxford Dictionary”: definition of naturalism in the Oxford Dictionary. Internet. April 14. 2014. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/naturalism Gardner, Helen and Fred S. Kleiner. Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective. Boston, MA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2014. Print “The Metropolitan Museum of Art-The Horse Fair.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art-The Horse Fair. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Web. March 11, 2014. http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/435702