Julie Manet

Julie Manet ( later Julie Rouart ) ( born November 14, 1878 in Paris, † July 14, 1966 ibid ) was a French painter, art collector and patron. As the daughter of Berthe Morisot she learned as a child to know many painters who portrayed frequently. Her diary of this period has been posthumously published in several languages.

Life

Julie Manet was the only child of Berthe and Eugène Manet. Her mother had been before her wedding success as a painter and kept her birth name Berthe Morisot as a stage name. Julie Manet's father did not exercise a profession and lived on the family fortune. His brother was the painter Édouard Manet, who was a friend of Berthe Morisot in 1868.

Her parents lived in a large house in the Rue de Ville Just ( today Rue Paul Valéry ), near the Place de l' Étoile and the castle Mesnil -Saint -Laurent in Juziers. Julie Manet learned as a child in the parlor of her parents, the painter Gustave Caillebotte, Pierre- Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Puvis de Chavannes, James McNeill Whistler and Claude Monet know. In this circuit reversed the poet Stéphane Mallarmé.

Even as a small child made ​​her uncle Édouard Manet at a portrait of Julie. When she was four years old was his portrait sketch " Julie Manet on a watering can sitting". In addition to portraits, Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted of her, she was her mother's preferred model. Also Berthe Morisot's only bronze work is a bust of her daughter.

Julie Manet was versatile educated. For this purpose the reading literature was English and French as well as learning the flute, piano and violin playing. In addition, she received hours in music theory, interpretation, and composition. With her ​​mother, she toured as a child in Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy. Together with Degas visited the Louvre. She saw numerous art exhibitions and many works of art in private collections. In addition, she learned from her mother drawing and painting. Berthe Morisot had never owned a studio and always worked in her apartment so that her daughter was familiar with the painting since early childhood.

After 1893, her father and two years later her mother died, was an orphan Julie Manet with 17 years. Your guardian was Stéphane Mallarmé. Julie Manet lived after the death of her parents along with her ​​cousins ​​Paule (1867-1946) and Jeannie Gobillard (1877-1970) in her parents' house in the Rue Ville Just. About the befriended Edgar Degas met Julie Manet her future husband, the painter Ernest Rouart (1874-1942) know. His father Henri Rouart (1833-1912), who was also a painter, belonged since his school days to the friends of Edgar Degas. The marriage took place in 1900 as a double wedding because her cousin Jeannie Gobillard on the same day married the poet Paul Valéry. From the marriage of Julie and Ernest Rouart the sons Julien Clément and Denis were born.

Julie Rouart devoted her life to painting. Her style was based on that of their mother. Frequently portrayed females from their friends and family. With her husband, she painted frescoes in Mesnil -Saint -Laurent castle. Later Julie Rouart designed porcelain plate, for which they chose butterflies and other insects as motifs. In addition, she was involved with her husband in the organization of major art exhibitions. This included 1932 Manet retrospective on the occasion of his 100th birthday, the Degas exhibition in 1937 and the Berthe Morisot Exhibition - 1941. During his lifetime, she gave numerous paintings of her uncle Édouard Manet and her mother Berthe Morisot at museums. Later came through their children more images from the collection as Rouart Foundation in possession of the museum.

Julie Manet was a regular diary from 1893. After her death, her children decided from 1893 to 1899 to publish the records of the year as a book. She described in her diary numerous encounters with artists in Paris in the late 19th century. Besides travel reports, they also commented on the State visit Tsar Nicholas II and the Dreyfus Affair. Your published diary has been translated into several languages.

Gallery

Berthe Morisot: Julie with a Greyhound 1893

Pierre- Auguste Renoir: Berthe Morisot with her daughter Julie 1894

Pierre- Auguste Renoir: Portrait of Julie Manet

Works

• Julie Manet: Journal, 1893-1899 ISBN 2-252-02143-8 1979 Paris (French)
• Julie Manet, Rosalind de Boland Roberts, Jane Roberts: Growing up with the Impressionists, the diary of Julie Manet London 1987 ISBN 0-85667-340-4 (English)
• Julie Manet, Rosalind de Boland Roberts, Jane Roberts: Il diario di Julie Manet 1893-1899 Milan 1988 ISBN 88-04-31255-6 ( Italian)
• Julie Manet, Sybille A. Rott - Illfeld ( translator's ): The Diary of Julie Manet, A youth under the spell of the Impressionists Munich and Hamburg 1988 ISBN 3-8135-3694-7