Life Model History: Julie Manet #artmodel #impressionism

Allow me to introduce to you, the darling 'daughter' of the impressionists, Julie Manet, born November 14th, 1868, to parents Eugene Manet, the younger brother of the acclaimed Edouard Manet, and to mother, Berthe Morisot. Both her parents were deceased by the time of her 16th birthday, first with her father, a few years later her mother. At her father's passing, she was taken under the tutelage of poet Stephane Mallarme, who when her mother passed, became her legal guardian. She was the favorite model of many impressionist artists, especially her doting mother, who portrayed much of her growing up, her Uncle Edouard Manet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Her diary, Growing Up With The Impressionists, published in 1979, recounts her childhood life with her mother, then life afterwards as an orphan, living in a Parisian apartment with her cousins, traveling with Renoir, Degas, and others, sharing their lives together, their thoughts on current events at the time such as the Dreyfus Affair. Her diary continued with the preparations for her marriage to Ernest Rouart, painter and engraver, which was held in Passy, and was a double ceremony with her cousin, Jeannine Gobillard who married Paul Valery. Julie and Ernest would have a happy life together and together would have three children, Julien, Clement, and Denis, who inherited the works of Berthe Morisot.