Carmen Babiano Méndez-Núñez

Carmen Babiano Méndez-Núñez (1852–1914) was a Spanish painter and a pioneer in feminine art.^[1]

She was born in Santiago de Compostela, the daughter of José Babiano Rodríguez, an army colonel, and of María del Carmen Clara Méndez Núñez, the sister of Admiral Casto Méndez Núñez.

At the Santiago Exhibition, 1875, she exhibited two oil paintings and two landscapes in crayon; at Corufia, 1878, a portrait in oil of her uncle, the Marquis de Méndez Núñez; at Pontevedra, 1880, several pen and water-color studies, three life-size portraits in crayon, and a work in oil, "A Girl Feeding Chickens."^[2] She died in Pontevedra.

References

This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: C. E. C. Waters' "Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D." (1904)

^ Conde, María (30 March 2014). "Carmen Babiano, pontevedresa pionera en el arte femenino" (in Galician). LA VOZ DE GALICIA. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
^ Waters, Clara Erskine Clement (1904). Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. (Public domain ed.). Houghton, Mifflin. pp. 22–.

[Conde2014-1] Conde, María (30 March 2014). "Carmen Babiano, pontevedresa pionera en el arte femenino" (in Galician). LA VOZ DE GALICIA. Retrieved 28 March 2015.

[Waters1904-2] Waters, Clara Erskine Clement (1904). Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. (Public domain ed.). Houghton, Mifflin. pp. 22–.

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