Julie Manet
Eugénie Julie Manet (14 November 1878 – 14 July 1966) was a French painter, model, diarist, and art collector.
Also recorded as Julie Rouart · Julie Manet Rouart
Julie Manet

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- Name
- Julie Manet
- Birth Name
- Eugénie Julie Manet
- Born
- 14 November 1878
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 14 July 1966
- Known for
- Model, author of Growing up with the Impressionists
- Occupation
- painter, art collector
- Spouse
- Ernest Rouart
- Full name
- Eugénie Julie Manet.
- Nationality
- France.
- Fields
- diary, painting, visual arts and collecting.
- Languages
- French.
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Eugénie Julie Manet (14 November 1878 – 14 July 1966) was a French painter, model, diarist, and art collector.
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Key facts
• Name — Julie Manet • Birth Name — Eugénie Julie Manet • Born — 14 November 1878 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 14 July 1966 • Place of death — Paris, France • Known for — Model, author of Growing up with the Impressionists • Occupation — painter, art collector • Spouse — Ernest Rouart • Children — 3 • Parents — Berthe Morisot Eugène Manet • Relatives — Édouard Manet (paternal uncle)
Biography
Biography
Born in Paris, Julie Manet was the daughter and only child of artist Berthe Morisot and artist 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. 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, her uncle Édouard and her cousin Paule Gobillard.
Book
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. Her diary "faithfully records—and concurs with—Renoir's relentless anti-Semitism (shared, alas, by the great Degas)".
Work
Work
She was taught painting by her mother, Berthe Morisot, and later become a painter herself. Her mother died of pneumonia when Julie was 16, in 1895, and left her with large fortune. • Illustration — Portrait of Julie Manet painting by her husband Ernest Rouart (1905) In May 1900 Julie married the painter and engraver Ernest Rouart, artist and son of the painter Henri Rouart. The wedding, which took place in Passy, was a double ceremony in which Julie's cousin Jeannine Gobillard (nicknamed "Bibi" and the daughter of Yves Morisot, the elder sister of Edma Morisot and Berthe Morisot), married Paul Valéry. The couple had three children, Julien (born 1901), Clément (born 1906) and Denis (born 1908). Soon after marriage the couple undertook a restoration and redecoration of Chateau du Mesnil and painted murals. Later she also designed porcelain plates with butterflies and other insects as motifs. She devoted her life to keep the legacy of Impressionists and especially her mother alive. Together with her husband she organized many crucial exhibitions, such as Édouard Manet exhibition at the Tuileries in 1932, Edgar Degas exhibition in 1937, and Berthe Morisot’s show of 1941. In 1961 she published the very first catalog of Berthe Morisot's works. Her son, Denis Rouart, art historian and curator of the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy, wrote the preface to the work. She is sometimes called the Last Impressionist, or the Last Manet. Her sons Julien and Denis inherited some of her mother's paintings, now in the Marmottan Monet Museum. Denis Rouart edited The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot with her family and her friends (1959).
Julie Manet as model
Julie Manet as model
• Illustration — Berthe Morisot, Eugène Manet and His Daughter at Bougival, 1881 • Illustration — Édouard Manet, Julie Manet sitting on a Watering Can, 1882 • Illustration — Berthe Morisot, Eugène Manet and His Daughter in the Garden, 1883 • Illustration — Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Julie Manet with Cat, 1887 • Illustration — Berthe Morisot, Julie Manet and Her Greyhound Laertes, 1893 • Illustration — Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Portrait of Berthe Morisot and daughter Julie Manet, 1894 • Illustration — Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Portrait of Julie Manet, 1894 • Illustration — Paule Gobillard, Julie Manet, (c.1900)
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
Her recorded language was French. She was the child of Eugène Manet and Berthe Morisot. She married Ernest Rouart. 2 children are recorded: Julien Rouart and Denis Rouart. Other recorded relations include Henri Rouart, Paule Gobillard and Édouard Manet.
Identity
Identity
Julie Manet is recorded as painter, autobiographer, diarist, model and artist.

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Edgar Degas · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy

Self Portrait of Berthe Morisot Sketching with Julie Manet MET DP884481
Berthe Morisot · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
Life and career
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Life and career
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1878
Julie Manet was born in 1878 at 16th arrondissement of Paris.
1966
Julie Manet died in 1966 at Paris.
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16th arrondissement of Paris.
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Paris.
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Paintings by Julie Manet
• Illustration — Julie Manet, Le Château du Mesnil, (c.1910)
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q447149: Julie Manet
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- “Julie Manet”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
- Crowing up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet, Woman's Art Journal, 1990
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1990
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- 1.Daniel, Malcolm R. Edgar Degas, photographer. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 35. 1998. 978-0-87099-883-6.
- 2.Kline, Nancy. Great Art, Repugnant Politics. The New York Times. 2017-12-08. 0362-4331.
- 3.Marlowe Paris, Lara. 'The last Manet': Julie Manet was the living legacy of impressionism. The Irish Times.
- 4.Monneret, Sophie. L'Impressionnisme et son époque, Volume 2. Robert Laffont. 788. 1987. 978-2-221-05412-3.
- 5.Higonnet, Anne (1990). Berthe Morisot. New York: Harper & Row, p. 150.
- 6.Sharma, Mahima. Julie Manet: An Impressionist Surrounded by Impressionists. SimplyKalaa. 2023-04-25.
- 7.Berthe Morisot: Permanent event at the Musée Marmottan-Claude Monet in Paris, France. Wall Street International Magazine. 9 January 2019.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Manet, Julie. Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet. Sotheby's Publications. 1987. 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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