Julie Manet

Julie Manet (14 November 1878 – 14 July 1966) was a French painter, model, diarist, and art collector.

Julie Manet Rouart
Julie Manet at age 15, 1894
Born
Julie Manet

(1878-11-14)14 November 1878
Paris, France
Died14 July 1966(1966-07-14) (aged 87)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Known forModel, author of Growing up with the Impressionists
Spouse(s)Ernest Rouart
Parent(s)Berthe Morisot
Eugène Manet
RelativesÉdouard Manet (paternal uncle)

Biography

Born in Paris, Julie Manet was the daughter and only child of artist Berthe Morisot and Eugène Manet, younger brother of painter Édouard Manet. The death of both parents within a three-year period left her orphaned at the age of 16.[1] As a result, she came under the guardianship of the poet and critic Stéphane Mallarmé and went to live with her cousins. She also received support from the family's artist friends, Renoir in particular.

Throughout her life Julie posed frequently for her mother and other Impressionist artists, including Renoir and her uncle Édouard.

Book

Her teenage diary, published in English as Growing up with the Impressionists, provides insights into the lives of French painters, including Renoir, Degas, Monet, and Sisley, as well the 1896 state visit of Tsar Nicholas II and the Dreyfus Affair, which was then raging in France. Notably, her candid accounts of dinner-table conversations about that Affair cast light on Renoir’s privately held views on patriotism and anti-Semitism.[2]

Personal life

In May 1900 Julie married the painter and engraver Ernest Rouart, artist and son of the painter Henri Rouart.[3] The wedding, which took place in Passy, was a double ceremony in which Julie's cousin Jeannine Gobillard married Paul Valéry. Julie had three children, Julien (born 1901), Clément (born 1906) and Denis (born 1908). Both Julien and Denis inherited some of Morisot's paintings, now in the Marmottan Monet Museum.[4]

Julie Manet as model
  • Berthe Morisot, Eugène Manet and His Daughter at Bougival, 1881
  • Édouard Manet, Julie Manet sitting on a Watering Can, 1882
  • Berthe Morisot, Eugène Manet and His Daughter in the Garden, 1883
  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Julie Manet with Cat, 1887
  • Berthe Morisot, Julie Manet and Her Greyhound Laertes, 1893
  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Portrait of Berthe Morisot and daughter Julie Manet, 1894
  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Portrait of Julie Manet, 1894

References
  1. Daniel, Malcom R; Parry, Eugenia; Reff, Theodore; Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris); Getty Museum [Los Angeles]; Metropolitan Museum of Art [New York] (1998). Edgar Degas, photographer. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-87099-883-6. OCLC 902184033.
  2. Kline, Nancy (2017-12-08). "Great Art, Repugnant Politics". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  3. Monneret, Sophie (1987). L'Impressionnisme et son époque, Volume 2 (in French). Paris: Robert Laffont. p. 788. ISBN 978-2-221-05412-3.
  4. "Berthe Morisot: Permanent event at the Musée Marmottan-Claude Monet in Paris, France". Wall Street International Magazine. 9 January 2019.

Further reading
  • Manet, Julie; Rosalind de Boland Roberts; Jane Roberts (1987). Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet. London: Sotheby's Publications. ISBN 0-85667-340-4.
  • Denvir, Bernard, The Chronicle of Impressionism: An Intimate Diary of the Lives and World of the Great Artists. London: Thames & Hudson, 2000.
  • McCouat, Philip, Julie Manet, Renoir and the Dreyfus Affair, in Art in Society http://www.artinsociety.com
  • Meyers, Jeffrey, Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt. Orlando: Harcourt, 2005.
  • Thomson, Belinda, Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Reception. The world of art library. London: Thames & Hudson, 2000.
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