José Bouchet
Spanish, 1848–1919
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José Bouchet Blanco was a Galician painter.
The son of a Galician girl and a Frenchman who fell prisoner in the Battle of Ponte Sampaio (1809), José emigrated with his parents to Argentina when he was a child and there he was a disciple of the Uruguayan Juan Manuel Blanes.
In 1875 he became a citizen of Argentina, in order to apply for a government scholarship, which allowed him to study in Florence, Italy, with Antonio Ciseri. He traveled to France, Spain, Cuba, Mexico, Porto Rico, United States of America and Chile. Back in Argentina, he was a member of the artists' society La colmena and the Galician Center of Buenos Aires. Many of his works were published in several editions of the Almanaque Gallego, from 1897 to 1917.
The National Historical Museum of Argentina, the National Museum of Fine Arts of Argentina and the Municipal Museum of Fine Arts Juan B. Castagnino of Rosario have paintings by Bouchet, as well as several private collections.
