 Her role in this last stage of the revolution was celebrated by French historian Jules Michelet in his 1851 essay "Madame Rosetti", and by her husband, who compared her to Anita, the Brazilian-born wife of Italian insurgent Giuseppe Garibaldi.Around 1850, Rosenthal completed one of his most celebrated paintings, "România revoluţionară" ("Revolutionary Romania").A national personification showing a woman in Romanian folk costume, it was also a portrait of Maria Rosetti.