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BONHEUR 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, Ecole ombrienne. BONHEUR, (FRANCOIS) 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 land- scape and animal painter he attained a con- siderable 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, Meet- ing 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, Cin- cinnati ; Le Berger et la Mer, R. L. Cutting, New York ; Cattle, H. C. Gibson, Philadel- phia; 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, Moth- er'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. BONHEUR, (MARIE) ROSA, born in Bordeaux, March 22, 1822. Animal painter ; daughter and pupil of Ray- mond B. ; began by copying in the | Louvre, afterwards made studies and sketches near Par- is. 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-Prus- sian war her studio and residence were re- spected by special order of the Crown Prince i 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) ; Plouyh- i ing in the Nivernais (1849), Luxembourg Museum; Horse Fair (1853); Hay Harvest in

Auvergne (1855) ; Mare, Rain on the Sea-

shore, Shepherd in Beam, Ponies from the Isle of Skye, Scotch Shepherd (1867); Paint- er (1868) ; Sheep at Pasture (1871); Forest of Fontainebleau (1873); Meadow near Fon- tainebleau, 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, Wean- ing 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 m