In The Horse Fair, how is the Legacy and influence discussed?
The first engraving of the work was made by Jules Jacques Veyrassat during the Paris Salon of 1853, while the often-reproduced engraving by Thomas Landseer helped it achieve a wide popularity.  Landseer's engraving was based on a half-size replica, 48 in × 100 in (120 cm × 250 cm), c.1855, by Bonheur and her partner Nathalie Micas, which was donated to the National Gallery in London in 1859 from the estate of Jacob Bell.Bonheur also made a second half-size replica, which she preferred, formerly in the collection of the McConnel family (owners of a cotton mill in Cressbrook, Derbyshire) and in the collection of Jack Wheeler by 1989, when it was exhibited at Meadows Museum in Dallas; and a third half-size replica made for Commander Arthur Hill Ommanney Peter Hill-Lowe RN in Somerset (first husband of Beatrice Hill-Lowe) was sold at Sotheby's in 1978, and is now in a private collection in Baton Rouge.  A fourth much smaller version, 19 in × 35 in (48 cm × 89 cm) was in the private collection of Karl Lowenstein.  An autograph watercolour version 24 in × 50 in (61 cm × 127 cm) dated 1867 was sold by Sotheby's in New York in 2007.  A similar watercolour version was sold by Knoedler in 1982.
Painter Molly Luce claimed that The Horse Fair was the first work which influenced her in her decision to become an artist, and the work also inspired a young Wayne Thiebaud.In the literary world, The Horse Fair inspired a 2000 anthology by poet Robin Becker.The painting, with its large scale, realistic style, and strong sense of movement, can be considered proto-cinematic.Bonheur's brother, Isidore Bonheur, cast a bronze relief plaque based on the painting for her monument at Fontainebleau.  The memorial included a large statue of a bull, on a pedestal with four relief plaques reproducing her most popular paintings; it was destroyed in 1941, but a cast of the plaque is held by the Dahesh Museum of Art in New York.
Wayne Thiebaud Knoedler Paris Salon Beatrice Hill-Lowe in New York Molly Luce Karl Lowenstein National Gallery x Meadows Museum realistic 24 Nathalie Micas Robin Becker Thomas Landseer Jacob Bell Jules Jacques Veyrassat Paris Dahesh Museum of Art Isidore Bonheur cm 120 Cressbrook 50 Baton Rouge proto-cinematic