In Paris the first-ever exhibition on Julie Manet, granddaughter of Ã?douard

In Paris comes the first-ever exhibition dedicated to Julie Manet (Paris, 1878 - 1966), daughter of Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot and Eugène Manet, the younger brother of painter Ã?douard Manet. Julie, who was orphaned at the age of sixteen, lived with Stéphane Mallarmé ’s cousins and was therefore in contact with literary and artistic circles from a very young age: she began her artistic career by modeling for great Impressionist artists, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Ã?douard Manet himself, and later became a painter herself. But not only that, Julie Manet was also animportant art collector.

The exhibition tracing her career is titled Julie Manet, la mémoire impressionniste and will be held at the Musée Marmottan Monet from October 19, 2021 to March 20, 2022. The museum is a place intimately linked to Julie Manet, since it holds her legacy of which Berthe Morisot’s first world collection is a part-Julie, in fact, had inherited numerous works from her mother, which later flowed into the Paris museum.

The exhibition, curated by Marianne Mathieu, aims to shed light on Julie Manet’s role in the art of the time, with a hundred works and three sections each devoted to different aspects of her life and career. A first section will evoke her childhood and adolescence and introduce her family and friends. It will start from when, in 1886, Julie posed for her mother for the work Jersey blue. But there will also be other works featuring her, such as the iconic 1894 Rêveuse (also by Berthe Morisot), or Renoir’s L’enfant au chat. Then again, a portrait of Julie alone and one together with her mother, both works by Renoir. Part of this section is devoted, moreover, to Mallarmé and his role in Julie’s life. There is also no shortage of copies by Ã?douard Manet and Berthe Morisot from works kept at the Louvre, to highlight the fundamental role the Louvre played in the family’s life.

The next section will highlight the role of Julie Manet and her husband Ernest Rouart (the two were married on May 31, 1900) as important collectors. In fact, in addition to the pieces inherited from Berthe Morisot, works acquired by the couple will be presented: works by artists such as Poussin, Fragonard, Delacroix, Hubert Robert, Camille Corot, Edgar Degas, Odilon Redon, Paul Gauguin, and the large panels of Monet’s Water Lil ies-Julie Manet was among the first collectors to have acquired one of Monet’s Water Lilies before the passing of Michel Monet, the heir of the Impressionist artist. A final section will be devoted to the many donations, bequests and gifts made by Julie Manet to French museums and more generally to the promotional work orchestrated by the family to promote the work of Berthe Morisot and Ã?douard Manet.

For all information you can visit the Musée Marmottan Monet website.

Berthe Morisot, Julie rêveuse (1894; oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm; Private collection)

In Paris the first-ever exhibition on Julie Manet, granddaughter of Édouard

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