Emilio Boggio

Emilio Boggio Dupuy was a Franco-Venezuelan Neo-Impressionist painter of Italian origin. His main influences were Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, with whom he was friendly and from whom he adopted the Impressionist style for which he is known. However, between 1902 and 1904, his figurative production reflects the influence of Van Gogh, being better known for his facet as a landscape painter. In 1864 he studied at the Lycée Michelet in Paris (France), from which he graduated in 1870. He traveled to Caracas in 1873, and in 1877 he was back in Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian, where he was a disciple of the French academic painter Jean - Paul Laurens. In the following years he competed in the different Parisian salons, receiving the Honorable Mention for his work Reading at the Salon of French Artists in 1888 and the silver medal, Hors de concours mention in 1899. That same year he was awarded with the bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. In 1919 he briefly returned to Caracas and exhibited 53 of his works at the Academy of Fine Arts. After Boggio's death, his work participated in a retrospective at the Sala Mendoza (Caracas), and in 1973 the Municipal Council of the Federal District acquired the Baptistin Rinaldi collection, made up of 68 paintings and more than 400 drawings, with which the Emilio Boggio Museum. In 1982, on the occasion of the celebration of the 125th anniversary of his birth, the exhibition hall of the Government of the Federal District held an exhibition entitled "Paintings by Emilio Boggio".

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