María Obligado de Soto y Calvo

María Obligado de Soto y Calvo (4 February 1857 – 19 June 1938) was an Argentine painter who worked in a variety of genres.

She was born in Buenos Aires, and grew up in a stimulating family environment, along with her brother, the poet Rafael Obligado.

While there, she studied at the Académie Julien with Jean-Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant; maintaining a close professional relationship with them throughout her career.

After marrying the writer Francisco Soto y Calvo (1860-1936), in 1888, the couple would alternate between living in Europe and Argentina until 1910.

In 1910, she and several other women artists, notably Eugenia Belin Sarmiento, participated in the Exposición Internacional del Centenario.