That daredevil, Rosa Bonheur! Dressed as a man in the 1850s to avoid detection at the Paris horse fair, Rosa snuck in to sketch the horses she loved. Her canvasses, at a massive scale unheard of for a female artist, took the snooty art world by storm and put a woman on the map as a painter of keen talent. This gossipy tour will look at paintings and sculpture by or about women who dared to break into an elite male bastion -- and made it!
(At the Metropolitan Museum of Art).

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Image credit: Horse Fair, Rosa Bonheur, 1853. 96 1/4 x 199 1/2 in. (8 feet x 16.6 feet)