Claudia Josefa Palacios González (?–1881) was an Uruguayan painter and miniaturist of the nineteenth century. She is best known for creating the first visual representation of Uruguayan independence episode known as Desembarco de los Treinta y Tres Orientales (Landing of the Thirty-Three Orientals).
Life
editJosefa Palacios was born in Colonia del Sacramento in the early years of the 19th century, into a patrician family.[1] She was the daughter of Pedro Antonio Palacios and Rosa González Amores.[2] As stated in the newspaper "El Comercio del Plata" of 1849 at the age of twelve she already handled both the pencil and the brush with ease.[3]
In 1841, Palacios married the Spaniard Manuel Gómez de la Gándara.[2] After she was married she lived in Montevideo and later moved to Buenos Aires.[3]
Josefa Palacios died in 1881.[4]
One of her nephews, Aurelio Palacios, was the father of the Argentine socialist politician Alfredo Palacios.[5]
Desembarco de los Treinta y Tres Orientales
editIn 1849 and 1854 she was working on her art piece Landing of the Thirty Three Orientals (Desembarco de los Treinta y Tres Orientales), an oil painting on canvas that became the first representation in the visual arts of the landing of Thirty Three Orientals on the Playa de la Agraciada in 1825.[6]
The painting represents a poorly lit night landscape, appearing in the center Juan Antonio Lavalleja, who in his left hand holds the blue, white and red tricolor flag, with a group of components of the liberating expedition and in the background, in the center, you can see the Uruguay River and a boat that is moving away.[6]
This work was painted by Josefa Palacios twenty-three years before her compatriot Juan Manuel Blanes depicted the same historical event.[1] The painting belongs to the collection of the Museo Histórico Nacional since 1911 when it was donated by Palacios’ children.[3][7]
In 1913 the painting was restored for the first time by the painter Ernesto Laroche.[8]
Until 2012, the painting Landing of the Thirty-Three Orientales had remained almost unnoticed by the Uruguayan public when Prof. Sonia Bandrymer carried out the research the realization of "Active Art. Digital catalog of artists visuals of Uruguay".[8]
There are few records and testimonies of the rest of her pictorial works, including the portrait of María Ortiz Laguna de Argentó, her daughter, and Florencio Varela.[6] Francisco Acuña de Figueroa suggests other works by Palacios include an effigy of her husband and a painting of the Virgin Mary.[2]
Honors
editIn 1997, the Departmental Board of Montevideo named after Palacios a street in the Paso de la Arena neighborhood in Montevideo.[3]
In 2019, another street in the city of Colonia del Sacramento was named after her.
Currently the Regional Historical Archive located in Colonia del Sacramento, has as its headquarters in the "Casa de Palacios" where Palacios lived.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Bandrymer, Sonia (8 March 2013). "En el Día Internacional de la Mujer recordamos a Josefa Palacios, una artista visual pionera en Uruguay". Museums of Uruguay (in European Spanish). Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ a b c "Los Treinta y Tres Orientales retratados por la coloniense Claudia Josefa Palacios". Perfiles (in Spanish). 2021-04-19. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
- ^ a b c d "Josefa Palacios y Dr. Fermín Ferreira - Colonia del Sacramento". Junta Colonia (in Spanish). 22 August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ "Josefa Palacios, la mujer que inmortalizó el desembarco de los Treinta y Tres Orientales". uruguayos.es (in Spanish). 3 May 2018. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
- ^ Barrios Pintos, Aníbal (2011). De tierra adentro: escritores, músicos y artistas plásticos del interior uruguayo (1 ed.). Montevideo, Uruguay: Planeta. pp. 262–263. ISBN 978-9974-685-73-4. OCLC 758983443.
- ^ a b c "Colonia del Sacramento llama "Josefa Palacios" a una de sus calles". Museo Historico (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ "Mulanas: un viaje por la historia entre caudillas, artistas e indígenas latinoamericanas - LA NACION". La Nación (in Spanish). ISSN 0325-0946. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
- ^ a b "Mujeres olvidadas". El Expreso (in Spanish). 26 April 2020. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.