Ernest Rouart (24 August 1874,

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- 27 February 1942, Paris) was a French painter,

watercolorist Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (Commonwealth English; see American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin 'water'), is a painting metho ...

, pastellist, engraver, and art collector.

Biography

He was one of four sons and a daughter born to the engineer and painter, Henri Rouart. His brother, , was a well known politician. He began by studying mathematics; intending to enter his father's business but, like his father, he turned to painting, enlisting the aid of

Edgar Degas Edgar Degas (, ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ; 19 July 183427 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is e ...

, a family friend, who gave him lessons and advised him to copy paintings at the

Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. It is located on the Rive Droite, Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arron ...

. He also had him experiment with older mixtures of paint, as they were prepared in the

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. It was also Degas who introduced him to the model and future art collector,

Julie Manet Julie Manet Rouart (; 14 November 1878 – 14 July 1966) was a French painter, model, diarist, and art collector. Biography Born in Paris, Manet was the daughter and only child of artist Berthe Morisot and Eugène Manet, younger brother of pain ...

, daughter of the painters

Berthe Morisot Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (; 14 January 1841 – 2 March 1895) was a French painter, printmaker and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. In 1864, Morisot exhibited for the first time in the ...

and

Eugène Manet Eugène Manet (; 21 November 1833 – 13 April 1892) was a French painter. He did not achieve the high reputation of his older brother Édouard Manet nor that of his wife Berthe Morisot, and he devoted much of his efforts to supporting his wife's ...

Sophie Monneret, ''L'Impressionnisme et son époque : Noms propres'' (Vol.1),

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, 1987, They married soon after, in 1900, and would have three sons. He was an avid art collector, as was his father. In 1912, he and his siblings decided to sell their late father's collection; which went for a considerable sum. Shortly after the beginning of

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, in 1914, he obtained permission to hold a sale of Degas' paintings. His friend, then eighty years old, had fallen on hard times and needed assistance. After beginning his career as a painter, he held numerous exhibits; first at the

Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA; ; ) was the term under which two groups of French artists united, the first for some exhibitions in the early 1860s, the second since 1890 for annual exhibitions. 1862 Established in 1862 by the painter a ...

in 1899. Later, he had showings at the

Salon des indépendants Salon may refer to: Common meanings * Beauty salon, a venue for cosmetic treatments * French term for a drawing room A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained, and an alternative name for a living room. The name i ...

, and the

Salon des Tuileries The Salon des Tuileries was an annual art exhibition for painting and sculpture, created June 14, 1923, co-founded by painters Albert Besnard and Bessie Davidson, sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, architect Auguste Perret, and others. The first year's ...

. He was a member of the governing committee for the Salon d'Automne. In 1932, he organized the "Exposition du Centenaire de Manet" at the

Musée de l'Orangerie The Musée de l'Orangerie () is an art gallery of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Garden next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. The museum is most famous as the permanent home of ...

. Similar exhibitions followed, for Degas in 1934, and Berthe Morisot in 1941. He died during the German occupation of Paris, and was interred at the Cimetière de Passy.

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