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 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.

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