Jacinto Capuz

JACINTO CAPUZ, (Valencia, 1857 - 1896).
"Goats.
Pencil on paper.
Signed in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 11 x 18 cm, 21 x 31,50 cm (frame).

Jacinto Capuz was formed artistically in the Academy of Watercolors of the Athenaeum of Valencia. At the end of the 19th century, he emigrated to Argentina, where he lived for several years in the city of Buenos Aires. There he was a member of the Colmena Artística, a group of artists that included Ángel della Valle, Vicente Nicolau Cotanda and other outstanding artists.

Between 1893 and 1896, together with this group, he participated in painting exhibitions held at the Teatro Onrubia and in the salons of the Bon Marché. They also presented caricatures and engravings at the Nuevo Local on Florida Street.

In the final stage of his life, Capuz began to progressively lose his sight, which is why he retired to the province of San Juan. He died there in 1896.

Historian Blanca Romera de Zumel, in her book Aportes para una historia del arte de la provincia de San Juan (1964), relates that Colonel Luis Jorge Fontana took several sculptors and painters to that province, who not only left an important artistic production but also developed a teaching work. Among the artists protected by Fontana were Jacinto Capuz, A. Pacheco and León Amuchástegui, collectively known as the Fontana Group. Fontana also maintained close ties with the Spanish painter Manuel Prieto, teacher of Daría Echagüe de Santibáñez and her husband, Guillermo Santibáñez.