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 painter

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. 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

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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 and her uncle Édouard.

Book

Her teenage diary, published in English as ''Growing up with the Impressionists'', provides insights into the lives of French painters, including Renoir,

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, and Sisley, as well the 1896 state visit of Tsar Nicholas II and the Dreyfus Affair, which was then raging in France. Notably, her candid accounts of dinner-table conversations about the Dreyfus Affair cast light on Renoir's privately held views on patriotism and anti-Semitism.

Personal life

Her mother, Berthe Morisot, died of pneumonia when Julie was only 16, in 1895. 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

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, 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

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. Julie had three children, Julien (born 1901), Clément (born 1906) and Denis (born 1908). Both Julien and Denis inherited some of Morisot'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

File:Eugene Manet and His Daughter at Bougival 1881 Berthe Morisot.jpg, Berthe Morisot, ''Eugène Manet and His Daughter at Bougival,'' 1881 File:Edouard Manet - Julie Manet sitting on a watering-can.jpg,

, ''Julie Manet sitting on a Watering Can'', 1882 File:Eugene Manet and His Daughter in the Garden 1883 Berthe Morisot.jpg, Berthe Morisot, ''Eugène Manet and His Daughter in the Garden,'' 1883 File:Julie Manet with cat 1887.jpg,

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; ; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French people, French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionism, Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially femininity, fe ...

, ''Julie Manet with Cat,'' 1887 File:Berthe Morisot - Girl with Greyhound - 1893.jpg, Berthe Morisot, ''Julie Manet and Her Greyhound Laertes'', 1893 File:Pierre Auguste Renoir - Portrait Berthe Morisot and daughter Julie.jpg, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ''Portrait of Berthe Morisot and daughter Julie Manet'', 1894 File:Pierre Auguste Renoir - Portrait de Julie Manet.jpg, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ''Portrait of Julie Manet'', 1894

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