The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . lowed by a numberof finely finished com-positions, and in the year 1849 she produced whatsome consider her masterpiece. Plowing with Oxen,now in the Luxembourg. Her famous Horse Fairwas the chief attraction of the Salon in 1853. Itwas purchased in 1887 from the Stewart collectionby Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt for $53,500, and byhim presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Artof New York. In 1865 she exhibited a large land-scape, Llaymaking in Auvergne. In 1853 she becameentitled to the cross of the Legion -of H
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . lowed by a numberof finely finished com-positions, and in the year 1849 she produced whatsome consider her masterpiece. Plowing with Oxen,now in the Luxembourg. Her famous Horse Fairwas the chief attraction of the Salon in 1853. Itwas purchased in 1887 from the Stewart collectionby Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt for $53,500, and byhim presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Artof New York. In 1865 she exhibited a large land-scape, Llaymaking in Auvergne. In 1853 she becameentitled to the cross of the Legion -of Honor, butbecause of her sex the decoration was withheld until1865. During the siege of Pans (1870-71) her studioand residence at Fontainebleau were spared byspecial order of the then Crown Prince of success in painting animals has been largely dueto her conscientious study of living subjects. Diedat Bv, near Fontainebleau, May 25, 1899. BONHOMME. Jkan FKANtois Honori?.. poli-tician and author, was born at Trenibladc. France,Jan. 29, 1811. He was a subchief in the Departs. ROSA nONHEUR. 542 BONIFACIO —BONNET ment of Finance, which office he held until 1866,when he decided to devote his entire attention toliterature, his official duties having told severely uponhis health. His more important writings, largely ofan historical nature, are Madame de Maintcnonand her Family; Louis XV and his Family;Madame de Pompadour; Genera/of the Army; Last Abbe of the Court. The Unedited Worksof Piron were published by him. Of poetry andprose sketches he has written Through the FloweringBushes; The Daughter of Dancourt; and The Exileof Ovid. BONIFACIO, of. See Sardinia, , p. 307. BONIN OR (Japanese) OGASAWARA ISLANDS,a volcanic group in the Pacific Ocean, 700 of Japan, having an area of 32 square were discovered by Ouast and Tasman in1639, and were taken possession of for Britain in1827, by Captain Beechey, but in 1878 the Japanesereasserte
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