The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-26

entireness of the votary. Nothing less
viii win its highest favor ! wed art.
1t is my husband, my world. my life
dream, the air I breathe. know
nothing else, feei nothing else, think
nothing else My soul finds in it the
most complete satisfaction.
only seek to be known by my works.
If the world feel and understand this I
/. have succeeded If I had got
up convention to debate the question
of my ability te paint the Horse Fair,
for which England paid me 10000
francs, the decision would have been
against me. I felt the power within
me to paint; I cultivated it, and have
produced works that have won the
faVOTat'e veTdicts of great judges. l
have no patience with women who ask
permission to think"
This successful thinker inherited her
artistic impulse from father and
mother, both of whom possessed just
enough skill to make a painful living
through their teaching rather than
through their handiwork. When
Resale. the Oldest child, was but Z,
years old her Overworked young mother
dice then Raymond Bonheur brought
his four mOtherless little children to
Paris, where he paid for their school
ing by giving instruction in drawing
and painting. ROsalies aversion to
school life now became as eXasperating
as it was amusing Truant trips to the
woods and fields alternated with keen
caricatuTes of the teachers, mounted
on the schoolroom walls with a putty
made Of chewed bread. These spirited
sketches her instructors, with mingled
chagrin and enjoyment, afterward
gathered into a scrapbOOk.
Failing so signally as a student, she
was next apprenticed at sewing
school, where her lack of achievement
confessed pronounced deficiency. She
pinned so for fresh air that she finally
became i'll, and in despair NJ. Bonheur
let the unhappy child come home.
While the puzzled father was trying to
decide what to do with ROSalie she
developed such an aptnesS in handling
his art materials that he was startled
into a perception of her great POSSIBLE
ties. He therefore took great pains to
teach her the rudiments Of drawing
and correct perspective, and then sent
her to the Louvre TO copy the old
masters. Here she worked with such
happy assiduity and complete Oblivi-
BUSINESS to aught but the work in hand
that the merit of her copies brought
ready purchasers.
At II she tramped the country over
but buoyed up by beauty of landscape
or model and her increasing ability
worthily to represent them. At this
time she had a preference for landscape
painting, but a successful picture of :
goat led her to make animal painting
her speciality. In her youth she also
evinced a decided tendency for express
ing her artistic impulse in relief as well
as in color for some time these twin
s--r
gled for the mastery, but color-expres-
sion finally won the day.
The Bonheur, lodgings in Paris We're
in the sixth story of a tenement house.
Here Auguste painted, Isadore modelled,
ROsalie sketched and taught her little
sister Juliette. The father, now that
his children We're self-supporting, re-
sUmed his painting and supervised the
efforts of the industrious family, happy
in their congenial work. Flowers and
birds beautified the home of these Attic
philosophers and docile sheep served
as an accommodating model for the en-
tire family. Occasionally the strong
Isadore would carry their four-footed
friend down the six fights 10 the fields
below and after an hours grazing
would carry him UP again to the roof
garden. This little incident but serves
to show the happy family spirit for
which the BOnheurs were always noted
It was always a grief to Rosalie that
her brother Auguste, whom she thought
unappreciated by the art world should
not have received the Legion of Honor
until two years after herself.
At 10 her pictures were first exhibit
ed. Two years later, 1s4z, the twelve
canvases which she submitted were
hanked on either side by pictures from
the brush Of Auguste BOnheur and his
father-the first they had ever exhibit
ed. Heneeforth several Bonheurs were