Julie Manet

Julie Manet
Photography 1894

Julie Manet (later Julie Rouart) (born November 14, 1878 in Paris ; † July 14, 1966 there ) was a French painter , art collector and patron . As the daughter of Berthe Morisot , she met numerous painters who often portrayed her as a child. Her diary from this period has been published posthumously in several languages.

Life

Julie Manet was the only child of Berthe and Eugène Manet . Her mother had already enjoyed success as a painter before her wedding and kept her maiden name Berthe Morisot as her stage name. Julie Manet's father had no job and lived on the family's fortune. His brother was the painter Édouard Manet , who had been friends with Berthe Morisot since 1868.

Her parents lived in a large house on Rue de Villejust (now Rue Paul Valéry), near Place de l'Étoile and the Mesnil-Saint-Laurent Castle in Juziers . As a child, Julie Manet met the painters Gustave Caillebotte , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Edgar Degas , Puvis de Chavannes , James McNeill Whistler and Claude Monet in her parents' salon . The poet Stéphane Mallarmé also frequented this circle .

Her uncle Édouard Manet made a portrait of Julie as a toddler. When she was four years old, he made his portrait sketch “Julie Manet sitting on a watering can”. In addition to portraits that Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted of her, she became her mother's preferred model. Berthe Morisot's only bronze work is also a bust of her daughter.

Julie Manet was raised in many ways. This included reading English and French literature as well as learning to play the flute, piano and violin. She also received lessons in music theory, interpretation, and composition. As a child, she traveled with her mother to Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy. She visited the Louvre with Degas . She saw numerous art exhibitions and many works of art in private collections. In addition, she learned drawing and painting from her mother. Berthe Morisot had never owned a studio and always worked in her apartment, so that her daughter had been familiar with painting from an early age.

After her father died in 1893 and her mother two years later, Julie Manet was orphaned at the age of 17. Her guardian was Stéphane Mallarmé. After the death of her parents, Julie Manet lived with her cousins Paule (1867-1946) and Jeannie Gobillard (1877-1970) in their parents' house on Rue Villejust. Julie Manet met her future husband, the painter Ernest Rouart (1874–1942), through her friend, Edgar Degas. His father Henri Rouart , who was also a painter, had been a friend of Edgar Degas since his school days. The marriage took place in 1900 as a double wedding, as her cousin Jeannie Gobillard married the poet Paul Valéry on the same day . From the marriage of Julie and Ernest Rouart the sons Julien, Clément and Denis emerged.

Julie Rouart devoted herself to painting all her life. Her painting style was based on that of her mother. She often portrayed female people from her circle of friends and family. She and her husband painted frescoes in the Mesnil-Saint-Laurent Castle. Julie Rouart later designed porcelain plates for which she chose butterflies and other insects as motifs. In addition, together with her husband, she was involved in organizing large art exhibitions. These included the 1932 Manet retrospective on the occasion of his 100th birthday, the Degas exhibition in 1937 and the Berthe Morisot exhibition in 1941. During her lifetime she donated numerous paintings by her uncle Édouard Manet and her mother Berthe Morisot to museums. Later, through her children, further pictures from the Rouart Collection were donated to the museum.

Julie Manet regularly wrote a diary from 1893 onwards. After her death, her children decided to publish the records from 1893 to 1899 as a book. In her diary she described numerous encounters with artists in Paris towards the end of the 19th century. In addition to travel reports, she also commented on the state visit of Tsar Nicholas II and the Dreyfus affair . Her published diary has been translated into several languages.

gallery

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  Édouard Manet:
  Julie Manet sitting on a watering can
  1882

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  Berthe Morisot:
  Julie with a greyhound
  1893

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

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  Pierre-Auguste Renoir:
  Portrait Julie Manet

Publications

• Journal, 1893-1899. Sa jeunesse parmi les peintres impressionnistes et les hommes de lettres . Klincksieck, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-252-02143-8 (French)
  • English: Rosalind de Boland Roberts, Jane Roberts (introduction and translation): Growing up with the Impressionists, the diary of Julie Manet . London 1987, ISBN 0-85667-340-4
  • Italian: Rosalind de Boland Roberts, Jane Roberts (introduction): Il diario di Julie Manet 1893-1899 . Milan 1988, ISBN 88-04-31255-6
  • German: Sybille A. Rott-Illfeld (translation): The diary of Julie Manet. A youth under the spell of the Impressionists . Munich and Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-8135-3694-7

Web links

Commons : Julie Manet  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files