Juliette Bonheur | |
Birth Date: | 1830 |
Birth Place: | Paris, France |
Death Place: | Paris, France |
Nationality: | French |
Field: | Painting |
Spouse: | Hippolyte Peyrol |
Father: | Oscar-Raymond Bonheur |
Juliette Peyrol Bonheur (1830 - 1891) was a French painter. She was known for her animal paintings. She is the sister of Rosa Bonheur (1822 - 1899), Auguste Bonheur (1824 - 1884), and Isidore Bonheur (1827 - 1901).[1]
Peyrol Bonheur was born in Paris in 1830.[2] She was trained in painting by her father as was her elder sister Rosa.[3] 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 who encouraged his daughter's artistic talents.[4]
She was married to Hippolyte Peyrol who owned a bronze foundry.[5]
She exhibited her paintings at the Salon (Paris) from 1852 until 1889.[6] She died in Paris in 1891.[2]
Peyrol Bonheur's work was exhibited at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[7]