Julie de Cistello
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1853
Julie de Cistello | |
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| Born | Julie de la Bourdonnay Cistello 1853 |
| Died | 1932 (aged 78–79) |
| Education | Académie Julian |
| Notable work | Sous les Pommiers (1912) |
| Movement | Impressionist |
| Spouse | Manuel Antônio Gonçalves Roque |
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Julie de Cistello, or Julie de la Bourdonnay Cistello[1], known as Vicomtesse de Sistelo (Rio de Janeiro,[2][3] 1853–1932)[4] was a Portuguese-Brazilian impressionist painter in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a pioneer in women's access to art education, and one of the first Portuguese-Brazilian women artists in the annual Parisian Salons. Her name in Portuguese is Júlia Labourdonnay Gonçalves Roque.
Her artist sister: Emília Labourdonnay Gonçalves Roque
Born on November 22, 1853, in Rio de Janeiro, she was the daughter of Boaventura Gonçalves Roque (Sistelo, April 22, 1822 - Estoril, June 14, 1894) who went very young and poor to Brazil where he made a fortune as a merchant, and then been a patron of social, artistic and literary initiatives. Her mother, Maria Luisa de Labourdonnay, was from a family of French aristocratic origin exiled to Rio de Janeiro after the French Revolution. From an early age, her mother educated her three daughters in music and the arts, and they were pupils of the French landscape painter Henri Nicolas Vinet and the Portuguese painter José Malhoa. They exhibited at the General Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1879 (at the Imperial College D. Pedro II), where they received honourable mentions. They spoke French, English, Italian and German.
Julie de Cistello was the first-born daughter. Her sister Isabel was also an artist and died at the age of 32 in 1888 in Rio de Janeiro, two years after having won the Gold Medal of the Artistic and Industrial Exhibition of Petropólis with a landscape painting. Her younger sister, Emília Labourdonnay Gonçalves Roque, become a well-known painter in Portugal with whom Julie exhibited in parallel throughout her career. Emília was married in 1894 to her widowed brother-in-law, and began to sign her artistic work as Countess of Alto Mearim. She died in 1939.
The Castle of Sistelo and the Julian Academy in Paris
Julie de Cistello married Manuel Antônio Gonçalves Roque (Sistelo, 14 June 1834 - Rio de Janeiro, 19 October 1886), her father's younger brother, twenty years her senior, in Rio de Janeiro in 1870. He too had emigrated young to follow his brother to Brazil, where he made his fortune as a merchant. Julie probably returned to Portugal in around 1880, the year in which her husband, a renowned patron of social and artistic initiatives in Brazil and Portugal, was appointed 1st Viscount of Sistelo. He was a benefactor, among others, of the Association of Portuguese Architects and Archaeologists and the Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro.
In Sistelo, his village in northern Portugal in the Peneda-Gerês National Park, he built the Castle of Sistelo, and paid for the village fountain, the public school and the grave where the family is buried. They had no children and Julie was widowed in 1886, at the age of 32. It was precisely from then on that her career would have a great development, having financed herself her artistic studies at the Académie Julian in Paris, where she enrolled in 1892 and again in 1900. The Académie Julian was one of the first schools to accept to integrate women in art education classes, preceding the School of Fine Arts in Paris. Julie de Cistello was a pupil of Gabriel Ferrier, William Bouguereau and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
