Sculpture - Bull , Isidore Bonheur (1827-1901) - Bronze

Bronze print with brown patina , representing a standing bull , by Isidore Bonheur (1827-1901) .
I.Bonheur excels in fixing , with great truth , the attitudes and spontaneous movements of the animal .
Old edition sculpture , signed "I.BONHEUR", hollow, on the naturalist terrace .
Period second part of the 19th century .
Perfect state of conservation and patina .

Dimensions : 12 cm x 14 cm

Isidore Jules Bonheur (1827-1901) 

Isidore Jules Bonheur was a French painter and sculptor .
Born in Bordeaux on May 15 , 1827 , he was the third child of painter Raymond Bonheur (1796-1849) and his wife Sophie Marquis (1797-1833) .
His family was made up of artists , the best-known of whom was Rosa Bonheur , the eldest sibling .

Isidore began his artistic apprenticeship with his father Raymond and older sister Rosa , and in 1827 entered the School of Fine Arts in Paris .
After practicing painting , he sent a plaster group to the 1848 Salon , entitled "Cavalier africain attaqué par une lionne" ("African rider attacked by a lioness") ; he then turned to animal sculpture . 
His group , "Combat de taureaux" ("Bull fight") , attracted attention at the 1850 Salon .
Isidore Bonheur won medals at the 1865 and 1869 Salons , and a gold medal at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris . 
He mainly composed groups of small animals .

I.Bonheur was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1895 . 
He died in Paris on November 19 , 1901.
Many of his works can now be found in museums , notably in Bordeaux , Warsaw in Poland and the United States , but most of his sculptures can be found at the Orsay Museum in Paris .