examples by him are a Madonna and Saints, and parts of an altarpiece, in the Perugia Academy.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 138; Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 505; ed. Le Mon., iv. 149, v. 275, vi. 30; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne.
BONHEUR, (FRANÇOIS) AUGUSTE,
born in Bordeaux, Nov. 4, 1824, died Feb.
22, 1884. Landscape and animal painter;
son and pupil of Raymond B. (died 1853),
a meritorious artist. Auguste had little
success as a genre painter, but as a landscape
and animal painter he attained a considerable
reputation. Medals: 3d class, 1852,
1857; 2d class, 1859; 1st class, 1861, 1863; L.
of Honour, 1867. Works: Children in Fields
(1845); Bath, Happy Mother (1846); Interior
of Forest (1852); Gorges of the Gordanne
and of the Puy-Griou (1853); Col de Cabre
(1855); Souvenir of Brittany (1857); Herd
of Cattle in the Pyrenees, Crossing the Ford,
Drinking Place (1859); Arrival at Fair, Meeting
of Two Herds, Leaving the Pasturage
(1861); Return from Fair (1865); Sleeping
Place (1866); Souvenir of Pyrenees (1867);
Environs of Jalleyrac, Shepherd and Sea
(1868), R. L. Cutting, New York; Souvenir
of Auvergne (1874); Before the Rain (1875).
Other works in the United States: Normandy
Cattle, James H. Stebbins, New York; Sheep
and Shepherdess, R. G. Dun, New York;
Cattle at Fontainebleau, H. Probasco, Cincinnati;
Le Berger et la Mer, R. L. Cutting,
New York; Cattle, H. C. Gibson, Philadelphia;
Environs of Fontainebleau, Mrs. A.
T. Stewart, New York.—Larousse.
BONHEUR, JULIETTE (Mme. Peyrol),
born in Paris, July 19, 1830. Animal
painter; daughter and pupil of Raymond
B.; assistant of her sister Rosa in the free
School of Design in Paris. Medal at the
Exhibition of 1855. Works: Flock of Geese;
Sheep Lying Down (1875); The Pool, Mother's
Kiss (1878); Corner of the Meadow,
Waste Lands of Beauregard (1879); Pond
with Willows, Meadow (1880); Stray Cow,
Road at Magny les Hameaux (1881); Cattle
in a Meadow (1882); Two Good Neighbours,
Sheep on a Plain (1883); Inn Stable (1884);
Sheep and Heather, J. H. Warren, Hoosac
Falls, New York; Sheep-Farm, J. Carey Coale,
Baltimore.
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BONHEUR, (MARIE) ROSA, born in
Bordeaux, March
22, 1822. Animal
painter; daughter
and pupil of Raymond
B.; began by
copying in the
Louvre, afterwards
made studies and
sketches near Paris.
Her first two
pictures, exhibited
at Bordeaux in
1841, attracted much attention and were
followed by others which established her
world-wide fame. During the Franco-Prussian
war her studio and residence were respected
by special order of the Crown Prince
of Prussia. Since 1849 she has been director
of the Paris free School of Design for Young
Girls, which she founded. Elected member
of Antwerp Institute in 1868. Medals: 3d
class, 1845; 1st class, 1848, 1855; 2d class,
1867; L. of Honour, 1865; Leopold Cross,
1880; Commander's Cross of Royal Order of
Isabella the Catholic, 1880. Works: Two
Rabbits, Goats and Ram (1841); Horse for
Sale, Grazing Cow, Cattle at Pasture, Twelve
Cattle pieces (1845); Herd (1848); Ploughing
in the Nivernais (1849), Luxembourg
Museum; Horse Fair (1853); Hay Harvest in
Auvergne (1855); Mare, Rain on the Sea-*shore,
Shepherd in Béarn, Ponies from the
Isle of Skye, Scotch Shepherd (1867); Painter
(1868); Sheep at Pasture (1871); Forest
of Fontainebleau (1873); Meadow near Fontainebleau,
Monarch of the Glen, Pack of
Wild Boars (1879); Foraging Party, On the
Alert (1881); Lion at Home (1882). Works
in United States: Study of Hound, Weaning
the Calves, Miss C. L. Wolfe, New
York; Rendezvous de Chasse, Shepherd and
Flock, August Belmont, New York; Ready
for Market, James H. Stebbins, New York;
The Old Monarch, Noonday Repose, Ready