Julie Manet. Impressionist Memory.

Official catalogue of the exhibition Julie Manet, Impressionist Memory from October 19 to March 20, 2022 at the Musée Marmottan Monet. The first illustrated monograph now available on Julie Manet, of whom only her Journal from 1893 to 1899 has been published to date. Drawing on mostly unpublished sources, Marianne Mathieu, Dominique d'Arnoult and Claire Gooden offer the first true compendium on Julie Manet (only daughter of Berthe Morisot and niece of Édouard Manet) and her circle, and retrace as exhaustively as possible the life and work of a woman who carries within her the memory of Impressionism. Julie Manet (1878-1966) is a key figure in Parisian artistic and literary life of the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Her childhood and adolescence took place in a bourgeois and wealthy world, in constant contact with illustrious figures, including Stéphane Mallarmé and Pierre Auguste Renoir. From a very young age, her mother, her uncle, and later her Impressionist colleagues took her as a model and introduced her to their art. Orphaned at the age of seventeen, the last of the Manets lived with her cousins Paule and Jeannie Gobillard – the future
Mrs. Paul Valéry – leading a life of unprecedented freedom for a well-born young woman of her time, and at the same time developing an intense religious fervor that would never leave her. With her husband, the painter and collector Ernest Rouart, she devoted her life to serving the memory of their eminent
ancestors. Together, they enriched the collection of works of art that she inherited, acquiring canvases by Chardin and Fragonard as well as Gauguin's paintings of Tahiti and panels of Water Lilies by the late Monet.