María Eugenia Roësset Mosquera (November 21, 1882 – October 3, 1921) was a Portuguese-born Spanish painter,
known for her portraits, and nudes.
She was also known by the married name María Eugenia Soriano Roësset, María Roësset, and signed her paintings as MaRo.
Early life and family
María Roësset Mosquera was born on November 21, 1882, in
Espinho in
Norte region of Portugal, to parents Eugenio Roësset Liot and Margarita Mosquera. She came from a French
haute bourgeois family on her father's side,
and was
Galician on her mother's side. Her father was a civil engineer working in Portugal during her birth. In her childhood, the family moved to Madrid.
In 1904, she married Manuel Soriano Berrueta–Aldana (1863–1910), the son of the Spanish painter .
After the marriage, her husband encouraged her to start painting.
In 1910, her husband died, leaving her as a young widow with two young children.
She was the aunt of the painter , the sculptor
Margarita Gil Roësset, and the publisher
Consuelo Gil Roësset.
Career
The family moved out of the center of Madrid and for the next five months she focused on study painting by daily visits to the
Museo del Prado
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and by taking classes at
Eduardo Chicharro y Agüera's painting studio.
Roësset Mosquera began traveling around Europe with her children to further study the art in the museums, and visited cities such as Munich, Düsseldorf, Rome, Florence and Vienna.
When
World War I
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broke out in 1914, she returned to Spain, which was a neutral country.
She acquired an illness in 1914, which worsened by 1915. It may have been
tuberculosis
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. Despite her illness she continued to travel.
On October 3, 1921, during a trip to
Manila
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, Roësset Mosquera died at the age of 38.
Roësset Mosquera's work can be found in museums, including at the in Galicia, Spain.
Exhibitions
* 1912, ''Gitana Agustina'', group exhibition, Munich, Germany
[Lavalle, Teresa, «María Roësset Mosquera», ''María Roësset (1882-1921)'', ]Ayuntamiento de Madrid
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The city council is composed by three bodies: the Mayor of Madrid, mayor, who leads the city council and the execut ...
, 1988; Catálogo de exposición. Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, ''op. cit.'', p.29
* 1914, ''Maja y Torero'', group exhibition,
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The CBA is a major multidisciplinary centre with one ...
, Madrid, Spain
References
External links
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* Video:
"María Roësset, MaRo, precursora" por Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles' (2024), by the Museo Nacional del Prado on YouTube
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1882 births
1921 deaths
20th-century Spanish painters
20th-century Spanish women artists
People from Espinho, Portugal
Portuguese emigrants to Spain
Spanish portrait painters
Spanish people of French descent
Spanish people of Galician descent