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Auguste Bonheur (3 November 1824 in Bordeaux – 21 February 1884 in Bellevue, Seine-et-Oise)〔(Centre Historique des Archives Nationale, dossiers de proposition pour la Légion d'honneur 1852-1870 )〕 was a French painter of animals and bucolic scenes in landscapes. He had the ability to depict the horizon, ambience, luminous settings and space. Bonheur's works during his lifetime were compared to his more successful older sister, the renowned animal painter Rosa Bonheur, which may have had a negative effect on his career. His paintings were influenced by the seventeenth-century cattle paintings by Dutch painters such as Aelbert Cuyp and Paulus Potter. Bonheur's paintings enjoyed popularity among British art collectors and, in the Netherlands, the uncle of Vincent van Gogh, an art dealer also called Vincent van Gogh, owned one of his paintings.〔... in view of the affinity of Bonheur's work to Dutch seventeenth-century cattle painting, his works were also collected in the Netherlands. The art dealer Vincent van Gogh, uncle of the famous painter, owned ''Le retour du marché'' (present whereabouts unknown). It was sold at an auction of his collection held in the building of the Artists' Association "Pulchri Studio" in The Hague on April 2 and 3, 1889〕 ==Life== Auguste Bonheur was the younger brother of the renowned painter Rosa Bonheur and older brother of the animalier sculptor Isidore Bonheur. Auguste was the first son of the painter Oscar-Raymond Bonheur (1796–1849) and Christine Dorotheé Sophie Marquis (1797–1833). His mother died a year after the birth of her last child, Isidore. Raymond Bonheur remarried and moved to Paris in 1829. His daughter, Juliette, born in 1830, also became a painter, and married the artist Auguste François Hippolyte Peyrol in 1852. The Bonheur family lived in Magny-les-Hameaux in the department of Yvelines. Auguste Bonheur was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1848 in the studio of Paul Delaroche. Like his sister Rosa, he became a ''peintre animalier''.〔 Bonheur preferred the traditional and detailed painting style and received his education at his father's atelier. Bonheur exhibited at the Salon of 1845. In 1852 he won a third-class medal for his landscapes ''Côtes de Brageac (Cantal)'' and ''Environs of Mauriac (Cantal)'', and a first-class medal in 1861. In the 1860s he made a trip to Scotland. His ''Highland Scene with Cattle'' in the Victoria and Albert Museum of 1863 depicts the scenery of the Scottish lochs. Bonheur married and had a son named Raymond, who became a music composer and a close friend of André Gide and confidant of Claude Debussy. In 1856 Bonheur's painting ''Mountain Scenery in the Auvergne: Early Morn'' was shown in Liverpool as part of an exhibition of French painting, along with other works by Auguste and Rosa. This may be the same painting as ''The Ruins of the Château d’Apchon'', exhibited at the Salon in 1853, and purchased by the French minister of the interior on the advice of Rosa. The minister's painting was bought in 1868 by George Holt of Sudley House under the title ''Landscape, Auvergne'', and is still on display there. Auguste Bonheur was appointed a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1867. Bonheur's ''La Sortie du pâturage'', which is in size, was painted in 1861 and exhibited in the Salon the same year along with his ''L'Arrivée à la foire, Auvergne'' (Coming to the Market, Auvergne) and ''Rencontre de deux troupeaux dans les Pyrénées'' (Encounter of Two Herds in the Pyrenees). The ''Sortie'' was awarded a first-class medal, and as a result was included as a prize in a lottery run by the French government to promote the ownership of modern art.〔 It was won by Leblois, an employee of the Chemins de fer de l'Est. The painting, together with Auguste's '' Le Combat, souvenir des Pyrénées'', later passed into the ownership of Sir Edward Bates at Gyrn Castle in Flintshire.〔 The poet and art critic Théophile Gautier visited the Salon of 1861 and noted Auguste Bonheur's three paintings. Writing in '' Abécédaire du Salon de 1861'', Gautier noted the similarity of style between Bonheur and Rosa, although Auguste's landscape settings were stronger and purer in colour, giving an impression of luminous sunshine. On balance, Gautier favoured the paintings of Rosa Bonheur for their stronger brushwork.〔 File:Bonheur way-to-market.jpg|''La Sortie du pâturage'' (The Return from the Pasture), 1861. Oil on canvas. File:Auguste Bonheur - La Corrida.jpg|''Le Combat, souvenir des Pyrénées'' File:Auguste Bonheur - Chef de la harde.jpg|''The chief of the herd'' File:Auguste Bonheur - Les ruines du château d'Apchon.jpg|''The Ruins of the Château d’Apchon'' File:Auguste Bonheur - Du bétail par un lac.jpg| ''Pasture beside the lake'' File:Auguste Bonheur - Paturage en Auvergne.jpg|''Scenery in the Auvergne: Early Morn '' File:Auguste bonheur a3274 plowing in the nivernais.jpg|''Plowing in the Nivernais'' File:Auguste et Rosa Bonheur - bovins sur une colline.jpg|Auguste and Rosa Bonheur - ''Bovins sur une colline'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Auguste Bonheur」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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