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BONXAT of Sir Richard Wallace ; Francis I. and the Duchesse d'Etaiupes, Park of Versailles, Louvre. Ch. Blanc, cole anglaise ; Cat Nat Gal.; Cunningham; Art Journal (1858), 137. BONNAT, LEON (JOSEPH FLOREN- TIN), born at Ba- yonne, in 1833. Genre and portrait painter ; pupil in Madrid of F. de Madrazo and in Paris of Leon Co- guiet ; also studied four years in Italy, where he painted many small pictures of Italian life, for which he is best known. Has painted sev- eral religious pictures for the Government. Second grand prix, 1858 ; medals : 2d class, 1801, 1863, and 1869; of honour, 1869; L. of Honour, 1867 ; Officer, 1874 ; Com- mander, 1882 ; Member of Institute. Works : Good Samaritan (1859); Adam and Eve finding the Body of Abel (1860), Lille Mu- seum ; Mariuccia (1861); Pasqua Maria, Martyrdom of St. Andrew (1863); Pilgrims at Foot of Statue of St. Peter (1864); Italian Boy Begging (1864); Antigone leading her Blind Father (1865); Neapolitan Peasants at the Farnese Palace (1866); St. Vincent de Paul taking the Place of a Galley-Slave (1866); First Steps of Childhood, Tender- ness, Fellah Woman, Street in Jerusalem (1870), Assumption (1869); Sheikhs of Aka- bah, Woman of Ustaritz (1872); Turkish Barber, Sherzo (1873); Christ on the Cross (1874); Negro Barber, Wrestling of Jacob (1876); Job (1880) ; Martyrdom of St. Denis (1885). Works in United States: Girl of Albano at Fountain, Misa C. L. Wolfe, New York ; Italian Girl, August Belmont, New York ; Roman Girl, W. Rockefeller, New York ; Don't Cry, J. J. Astor, New York ; Little Contadiua, J. A. Brown, Providence ; Elder Sister, H. P. Kidder, Boston ; Italian Mother and Child, H. C. Gibson, Philadel- phia ; Arab plucking Thorn from his Foot, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York. Among his portraits are : M. Thiers (1877), Victor Hugo (1879), Presi- dent Gr6vy (1880), Leon Cogniet (1881, Luxembourg), Hon. L. P. Morton (1883). Gaz. des B. Arts (1881), xxiv. 32 ; Menard ; Portfolio, 1875. BONNEFOND, JEAN CLAUDE, born in Lyons, about 1790, died there, June 27, 1860. Genre painter ; pupil of Revoil ; won the first prize in Lyons school of art in 1813 ; then went to Paris and afterward to Italy. Succeeded Revoil in 1831 as direc- tor of the Lyons school of art Medals : 2d class, 1817 ; 1st class, 1827 ; L. of Hon- our, 1834 ; Corresponding Member of Insti- tute, 1854. Works: Bed-Chamber, Little Savoyards (1817); Poultry Merchant, Blind Man*(1819); Blacksmith (1822), B. Deles- sert ; Return of Little Savoyards, Country Scene in Spain, Room to Let (1824), Lyons Museum ; Tired Pilgrim Woman helped by Monks, Shepherds and Shepherdesses in Roman Canipagna (1827) ; Ceremony of Holy Water in a Greek Church (1831), Lyons Museum ; Wounded Pilgrim Woman, Greek Officer wounded in Ruins of Misso- longhi, Christ on the Cross, Court-House, Lyons; Roman Gleaner, Vow to the Ma- donna. Larousse. BONNEFOY, HENRY, born at Bou- logne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) ; contempo- rary. Landscape painter ; pupil of Leon Cogniet. Medals : 3d class, 1880 ; 2d class, 1884. Works : June in Denmark, Monsieur, Madame etBebe (1880); Delinquents, Octo- ber Evening (1881); Playing Truant, The Ox and the Frog (1882) ; In the Woods (1883); September Morning, June in the Wood (1884); Derriere 1'Oreille, On the Border of the Pool (1885). BONNEGRACE, CHARLES ADOLPHE, born at Toulon, April 2, 1812, died in 1882. History and portrait painter ; pupil of Baron Groa Medals: 3d class, 1839 ; 2d class, 1842 ; L. of Honour, lbG7. Works : St Peter in 1T9