DJulie Manet was born in Impressionism. She was born in 1878 and is the only daughter of painter Berthe Morisot and niece. Edward Manet Born in the dawn of the first modern art movement. Her father is Edward’s younger brother Eugene Manet. Julie has naturally become a model since she was a child. Her famous uncle has captured the young Berthe Morisot in several portraits. He used spontaneous brushstrokes to depict the “15-month-old Julie Manet” (Julie Manet). Round and rosy face. Soon after, Moriso sent two pastel paintings to his daughter to participate in the Sixth Impressionist Painting Exhibition. With painting and time, you can see Julie grow into a child of a closely connected group of painters and intellectuals who brought together great figures from Paris at the end of the 19th century. Auguste Renoir painted a sensitive portrait of the five-year-old “Cat Child (Julie Manet)”, and later painted the “Portrait of Julie Manet” as a young girl. In 1894, shortly before Morisot died prematurely, he combined his mother and daughter into one.
Berthe Morisot and Eugène Manet were married in 1874. The latter also painted himself, but had no higher ambitions for his own art. Due to the wealth of the family, the couple was able to live a bourgeois life. Eugene supported his wife’s artistic career and even stayed behind the scenes with the unusual loyalty of his time. In 1881, Morisot painted her husband and little Julie on a park bench. Soon after, I created a dynamic pastel painting “Girl in a Blue Jersey”, which gave people a flashy momentary impression. You can see Julie grow into a little girl through her mother’s eyes. Berthe Morisot’s brushes reveal a thoughtful, dreamlike, almost melancholy expression, which exposes Julie’s sensitivity. Her father Eugene Manet drew his “Bibi” in a sketchbook.
Talented and full of charm
The exhibition at the Marmottan Monet Museum in Paris brings together more than one hundred paintings, works on paper, photographs and documents, titled “Julie Manet-Impressionist Heritage”. This is based on three years of research, led by Marianne Mathieu, the museum’s scientific director, and has deepened this research in the catalog through contributions to numerous other works, photographs and contemporary documents. Particularly fascinating are the photos, some of which have never been made public, showing the family life with Julie Manet’s circle of friends, and the new way of using photos as a template for painting at the time.
Through the life story of Julie Manet, a chapter of Impressionism can be opened from the perspective of women. The exhibition serves not only as art history, but also as a contemporary historical investigation of the artist’s family privacy. The Marmottan Monet Museum, with its extensive Impressionist collection and numerous works by Berthe Morisot, is the ideal place for this reassessment. From a childlike adolescent model, Julie Manet evolved into a determined woman fighting for the legacy of Impressionism. Her drawing talent and charm—a room dedicated to displaying her paintings—but did not reach the exquisite craftsmanship of Berthe Morisot. As the last heir of the Manet family, she has always advocated the work of receiving mothers and uncles.
