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1818 BCE
Procesa del Carmen Sarmiento de Lenoir
Procesa del Carmen Sarmiento de Lenoir, was one of the first Argentine painters and primary school teacher -
Go to chile
She moved to Santiago de Chile where his brother worked as a journalist and took classes with the French painter Raymond August Quinsac Monvoisin -
Married
She married the engineer Benjamin Lenoir. She had two daughters with him -
Museum
She was the driving force, along with Benjamin Franklin Rawson, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento of an art collection that today is the basis of the current Franklin Rawson Provincial Museum of Fine Arts -
From San Juan to Mendoza
Lenoir Sarmiento´s family came back to San Juan and after a while they moved to Mendoza where Procesa set up an arts school -
Back to home
She returned definitively to San Juan, where in 1872 she was a painting teacher at the Girls High School -
In her honor
Her painting were show off in Continental Exhibition of Buenos Aires -
Die
She died at age 81 in her hometown, today is a museum. After her death her works continued to be exhibited in several provincial and national exhibitions
