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Weaning the Calves, 1879. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 25 5/8 x 32 in. (65.1 x 81.3 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Weaning the Calves
- Artist
- Rosa Bonheur (French, Bordeaux 1822–1899 Thomery)
- Date
- 1879
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25 5/8 x 32 in. (65.1 x 81.3 cm)
- Credit line
- Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1822–1899
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.