María Roësset Mosquera
{{Short description|Portuguese-born Spanish painter (1882–1921)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = María Roësset Mosquera
| image = Museo_del_Prado._Invitadas._Fragmentos_sobre_mujeres,_ideolog%C3%ADa_y_artes_pl%C3%A1sticas_en_Espa%C3%B1a_25_(cropped).jpg
| caption = Self-portrait (1921) by María Roësset Mosquera, at the Museo Nacional del Prado
| other_names = Maria Roesset Mosquera,
María Roësset–Mosquera,
María Eugenia Soriano Roesset,
María Eugenia Soriano–Roesset,
MaRo
| birth_name = María Eugenia Roësset Mosquera
| birth_date = November 21, 1882
| birth_place = Espinho, Portugal
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1921|10|03|1882|11|21}}
| death_place = Manila, Philippines
| citizenship = Spain
| occupation = Painter
| years_active = 1910–1921
| spouse = Manuel Soriano Berrueta-Aldana (m. 1904–1910; his death)
| children = 2
| relatives = Margarita Gil Roësset (niece),
{{III|Marisa Roësset Velasco|es|Marisa Roësset Velasco}} (niece),
Consuelo Gil Roësset (niece),
{{III|Benito Soriano Murillo|es|Benito Soriano Murillo}} (father in-law)
}}
María Eugenia Roësset Mosquera (November 21, 1882 – October 3, 1921) was a Portuguese-born Spanish painter,{{Cite web |date=October 31, 2011 |title=Roesset Mosquera, Maria |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/display/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00154604 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00154604}} known for her portraits, and nudes.{{Cite book |last=Capdevila-Argüelles |first=Nuria |title=Artistas y precursoras : un siglo de autoras Roësset |publisher=Horas y Horas la Editorial |year=2013 |isbn=9788496004542 |language=es}} She was also known by the married name María Eugenia Soriano Roësset,{{Cite web |title=Soriano Roesset, María Eugenia |url=https://www.museodelprado.es/aprende/enciclopedia/voz/soriano-roesset-maria-eugenia/e8e90fc9-d9f5-4067-a1b4-364953a81dfa |website=Museo Nacional del Prado}} 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,{{Cite web |last=Asenjo |first=Patricia Ponce de |date=2023-02-12 |title=Las Roësset, una familia de artistas y el cambio de la situación de la mujer en España a principios del siglo XX |trans-title=The Roëssets, a family of artists and the changing status of women in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century |url=https://www.eldebate.com/historia/20230212/roesset-familia-artistas-cambio-situacion-mujer-espana-principios-siglo-xx_91588.html |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=El Debate |language=es}} 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 {{III|Benito Soriano Murillo|es|Benito Soriano Murillo}}. 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 {{III|Marisa Roësset Velasco|es|Marisa Roësset Velasco}}, 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 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 broke out in 1914, she returned to Spain, which was a neutral country. She acquired an illness in 1914, which worsened by 1915.Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E., «María Roësset, una interesante y desconocida pintora», Villa de Madrid 86 (1985) Ayuntamiento de Madrid, 1988; Catálogo de exposición. Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, cit. pos., p. 5 It may have been tuberculosis. Despite her illness she continued to travel. On October 3, 1921, during a trip to Manila, Roësset Mosquera died at the age of 38.
Roësset Mosquera's work can be found in museums, including at the {{III|Museo de Bellas Artes de La Coruña|es|Museo de Bellas Artes de La Coruña}} in Galicia, Spain.{{Cite web |title=Desnudo de niña con los brazos cruzados |url=https://ceres.mcu.es/pages/ResultSearch?txtSimpleSearch=Desnudo%2520de%2520ni%25F1a%2520con%2520los%2520brazos%2520cruzados&simpleSearch=0&hipertextSearch=1&search=simple&MuseumsSearch=&MuseumsRolSearch=1&listaMuseos=null |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=CER.es Colecciones en Red - Museos |language=es}}
Exhibitions
- 1912, Gitana Agustina, group exhibition, Munich, GermanyLavalle, Teresa, «María Roësset Mosquera», María Roësset (1882-1921), Ayuntamiento de Madrid, 1988; Catálogo de exposición. Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, op. cit., p.29
- 1914, Maja y Torero, group exhibition, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
References
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External links
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- Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ydo5XCPko "María Roësset, MaRo, precursora" por Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles] (2024), by the Museo Nacional del Prado on YouTube
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Category:20th-century Spanish painters
Category:20th-century Spanish women artists
Category:People from Espinho, Portugal
Category:Portuguese emigrants to Spain
Category:Spanish portrait painters