Raymond Bonheur
Oscar-Raymond Bonheur (1796–1849) was a French painter. He is best known as the father of Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), Auguste Bonheur (1824–1884), Isidore Bonheur (1827–1901), and Juliette Bonheur (1830–1891).
Also recorded as Oscar-Raymond Bonheur
Raymond Bonheur
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- Name
- Raymond Bonheur
- Birth Name
- Oscar-Raymond Bonheur
- Born
- 20 March 1796
- Birthplace
- Bordeaux, France
- Died
- 23 March 1849
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Field
- Painting
- Spouse
- Christine Dorotheé Sophie Marquis
- Full name
- Raymond Oscar Bonheur.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- painter and head teacher.
- Fields
- painting.
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Oscar-Raymond Bonheur (1796–1849) was a French painter. He is best known as the father of Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), Auguste Bonheur (1824–1884), Isidore Bonheur (1827–1901), and Juliette Bonheur (1830–1891).
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Rosa Bonheur and Juliette Bonheur are recorded as having studied under Raymond Bonheur. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is painting. Employment is recorded with École nationale gratuite de dessin pour les jeunes filles. Work by Raymond Bonheur is recorded in the collections of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Château de By and Musée des Peintres de Barbizon.
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Titre complet du recueil: Atlas national illustré des 86 Départements et des Possessions de la France divisé par Arrondissements, Cantons et Communes avec le tracé de toutes les routes, chemins de fer et canaux. Dressé d'après les Travaux du Cadastre du Dépôt de la Guerre et des Ponts et Chaussées par V. Levasseur, Ingénieur Géographe attaché au Génie du Cadastre et de la Ville de Paris. Gravé su
Victor Jules Levasseur / Frédéric-Guillaume Laguillermie · This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse as part of a cooperation project with Wikimédia France.
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• Name — Raymond Bonheur • Birth Name — Oscar-Raymond Bonheur • Born — 20 March 1796 • Birthplace — Bordeaux, France • Died — 23 March 1849 • Place of death — Paris, France • Field — Painting • Spouse — Christine Dorotheé Sophie Marquis • Children — Rosa, Auguste, Isidore, and Juliette
Biography
Biography
Bonheur was born in 1796. He was a landscape and portrait painter. He was also follower of Saint-Simonianism He left his wife, Sophie, and his four children to join a Saint-Simonian community. When Sophie died of tuberculosis, he took over the responsibility for his previously abandoned children. He sent his two sons to boarding school and Juliette was sent to live with a family friend. Rosa remained with her father. He died in 1849.
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Bonheur's family was of Jewish descent.
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- 1.« Autoportrait », notice sur musba-bordeaux.opacweb.fr.
- 2.Bonheur Raymond - Maitron. maitron.fr.
- 3.Archives de Toulouse, acte de mariage de Jean Bonheur en page , année 1815 (vue 62/183).
- 4.Acte 65 - Bordeaux-Registres d'état civil-1ère section-Mariages -3 janvier-21 novembre 1821 3 janvier-21 novembre 1821 Cote : 4 E 993. Archives départementales de la Gironde.
- 5.L'auto/biographie de Rosa Bonheur : un testament matrimonial. Romantisme. 24. 85. 37–45 . 1994. 10.3406/roman.1994.6229 lire en.
- 6.Chapitre prénom1=Chantal nom1=Antier titre chapitre=Une éducation saint-simonienne au s- XIX . L’artiste peintre Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) titre ouvrage=Genre & Éducation : Former, se former, être formée au féminin éditeur=Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre collection=Éducation date=2018-08-28 isbn=979-10-240-1019-9 lire en ligne=http://books.openedition.org/purh/1786 consulté le=2021-01-16 passage=419–433 .
- 7.Le Crédit : journal quotidien / directeur-gérant : Léopold Amail ; [rédacteur en chef : Charles Duveyrier]. Gallica. 1849-03-28.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Pierre Miquel, Collection Le Paysage français au . L’École de la Nature, Maurs-la-Jolie, Éditions de la Martinelle. Tome IV : « Le Paysage français au . Monographie établie année après année de chacun des plus grands paysagistes nés entre 1820 et 1845, Jacques Barthélemy Appian dit Adolphe Appian, Anastasi Auguste Paul Charles dit Auguste Anastasi, Eugène Lavieille, Alfred de Curzon, Raymond Bonheur, Rosa Bonheur, Auguste Bonheur, Juliette Bonheur, Léon Villevieille, Léon Belly, Paul Guigou, Antoine Guillemet, Henri Zuber ».
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