 According to a letter by Beau's wife (held in the archives of the MBNAQ) to Paul Rainville, then curator of the Musée de la Province du Québec(MBNAQ), Beau also attended l'Académie Colarossi.It is also mentioned that he studied under Léon Bonnat and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes who advised Beau to pursue landscape painting.Beau married a woman before August 1906.