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]
Biography
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]
Juliette Peyrol Bonheur, Sheep Resting in the Meadow, 1869
References
^Galton, Francis. Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences. Second edition. (London: MacMillan and Co, 1892), p. 247. Original 1869.