Juliette Peyrol Bonheur (1830–1891) was a French painter. She was known for her animal paintings. She is the sister of

Rosa Bonheur Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals ( animalière). She also made sculpture in a realist style. Her paintings include ''Ploughing in the Nivernais'', fir ...

(1822–1899),

Auguste Bonheur Auguste Bonheur (3 November 1824 in Bordeaux – 21 February 1884 in Bellevue, Seine-et-Oise) was a French painter of animals and bucolic scenes in landscapes. In his compositions he was able to accurately depict the horizon, ambience, lumino ...

(1824–1884), and

Isidore Bonheur Isidore Jules Bonheur (Bordeaux 15 May 1827 – 10 November 1901 Paris), best known as one of the 19th century's most distinguished French animalier sculptors. Bonheur began his career as an artist working with his elder sister Rosa Bonheur in ...

(1827–1901).Galton, Francis. ''Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences''. Second edition. (London: MacMillan and Co, 1892), p. 247. Original 1869.

Biography

Peyrol Bonheur was born in Paris in 1830. She was trained in painting by her father as was her elder sister Rosa.Kuiper, Kathleen
"Rosa Bonheur"
''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', Retrieved 23 May 2015. Her mother was Sophie Bonheur (née Marquis), a piano teacher; she died when Peyrol Bonheur was a baby. Her father was Oscar-Raymond Bonheur, a landscape and

portrait painter Portrait Painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public and pr ...

who encouraged his daughter's artistic talents. She was married to Hippolyte Peyrol who owned a bronze foundry. She exhibited her paintings at the

Salon (Paris) The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...

from 1852 until 1889. She died in Paris in 1891. Peyrol Bonheur's work was exhibited at the

Palace of Fine Arts The Palace of Fine Arts is a monumental structure located in the Marina District of San Francisco, California, originally constructed for the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition to exhibit works of art. Completely rebuilt from 1964 to ...

at the 1893

World's Columbian Exposition The World's Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, hel ...

in Chicago, Illinois. File:Juliette Peyrol Bonheur.jpg, Juliette Peyrol Bonheur, ''Sheep Resting in the Meadow'', 1869

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