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The American painter Anna Klumpke came to France in 1898 to portray Rosa Bonheur, the animal painter she had admired since childhood and by then one of the most famous women artists in Europe. Bonheur was 76. Klumpke shows her at her easel, brushes in hand, the red rosette of the Legion of Honour pinned to her jacket. The sittings turned into something more. Klumpke stayed on as Bonheur's companion, and when Bonheur died the next year she left Klumpke her house and studio near Fontainebleau. Klumpke kept the portrait until 1922, then gave it to the Metropolitan in memory, she wrote, of their great friendship.