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Bonheur (Isodore-Jules),
animal sculptor, born in Bordeaux (Gironde) May 15 1827, deceased in 1901 (French
School.) Son of the painter Raymond Bonheur, brother of Rosa Bonheur. He first
studied to be a painter under his father his father's tutelage and at the Ecole
des Beaux-Arts. Debuted at the Salon in 1848 with a painting and a sculpture
but soon began to focus solely on sculpture. Member of the Salon until 1899,
Bonheur won first place in 1889 and became a Member of the Legion of Honour
in 1895. Among the monuments that he cast were, his sister's memorial statue
at Fontainbleau completed in the last two years of his life, and two stone lions
for the Palais de Justice in Paris.
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