PARIS — On a visit to the Musée d’Orsay in late October — school holiday time in France — the lines to get in were long, and the soaring space inside as teeming with people as it might have been when ...

Rosa Bonheur was a French artist working in the animalier style. Creating both sculptures and paintings, Bonheur is best known for her realist depictions of animals and is widely lauded as one of the ...