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 of Sir Richard Wallace; Francis I. and the Duchesse d'Etampes, Park of Versailles, Louvre.—Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Cat. Nat. Gal.; Cunningham; Art Journal (1858), 137.

BONNAT, LÉON (JOSEPH FLORENTIN), born at Bayonne, in 1833. Genre and portrait painter; pupil in Madrid of F. de Madrazo and in Paris of Léon Cogniet; also studied four years in Italy, where he painted many small pictures of Italian life, for which he is best known. Has painted several religious pictures for the Government. Second grand prix, 1858; medals: 2d class, 1861, 1863, and 1869; of honour, 1869; L. of Honour, 1867; Officer, 1874; Commander, 1882; Member of Institute. Works: Good Samaritan (1859); Adam and Eve finding the Body of Abel (1860), Lille Museum; 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, Tenderness, 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, Miss 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 Contadina, J. A. Brown, Providence; Elder Sister, H. P. Kidder, Boston; Italian Mother and Child, H. C. Gibson, Philadelphia; Arab plucking Thorn from his Foot, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York. Among his portraits are: M. Thiers (1877), Victor Hugo (1879), President Grévy (1880), Léon 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 director of the Lyons school of art. Medals: 2d class, 1817; 1st class, 1827; L. of Honour, 1834; Corresponding Member of Institute, 1854. Works: Bed-Chamber, Little Savoyards (1817); Poultry Merchant, Blind Man (1819); Blacksmith (1822), B. Delessert; 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 Campagna (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 Madonna.—Larousse.

BONNEFOY, HENRY, born at Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais); contemporary. Landscape painter; pupil of Léon Cogniet. Medals: 3d class, 1880; 2d class, 1884. Works: June in Denmark, Monsieur, Madame et Bébé (1880); Delinquents, October Evening (1881); Playing Truant, The Ox and the Frog (1882); In the Woods (1883); September Morning, June in the Wood (1884); Derrière l'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 Gros. Medals: 3d class, 1839; 2d class, 1842; L. of Honour, 1867. Works: St. Peter in