 Complete the following phrase:  Rosa Bonheur made the painting by commission of the French government for 3000 francs; it was shown in the Salon in 1849, where it won her a First Medal. N. DAnvers repeats an apparently well-known story, that it was inspired by the opening scene of George Sands novel La Mare au Diable 1846, which features oxen ploughing a landscape with the authors commentary, a noble subject for a painter. The comparison with Sand is amplified in an article in the July 1899 edition of The Literary Digest, which referred to the painting as a pictorial translation of the novel. Initially intended for the museum in Lyon, it was instead exhibited in the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris and was a featured exhibit at the 