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Julie Manet, an Impressionist Heritage exhibition at the Marmottan Museum until 20th March 2022

Julie Manet, the daughter of Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot and niece of Impressionist painter Édouard Manet is the subject of a new exhibition at the Marmottan Museum exploring her atypical life as a child, but also her life as a woman, her love of art (including the vast collection, she received as an inheritance) and the extraordinary collection she amassed with her painter husband Ernest Rouart.

This is the very first time that an exhibition takes the life of Julie Manet as its subject. She grew up surrounded by Impressionist painters and their paintings and spent her life – eight decades – making sure the work of her mother and uncle were appreciated at its just value.

The first part of the exhibition, on the ground floor of the museum, explores Manet’s youth, her education and shows how she modelled for her mother numerous times. The second part concentrates more of Manet’s own paintings, and unveils her writings for the first time.

The exhibition will also reveal tidbits about her life, like the fact she became an orphan at 16, she met her future husband at the Louvre and that she modelled for him as she had for her mother.

Exposition Julie Manet, la mémoire impressionniste au Musée Marmottan jusqu'au 20 mars 2022
© Christian Baraja SLB

The couple very quickly became art collectors, and donated many pieces to museums including – of course – the Louvre.

Near the end of her life in 1956, Julie Manet managed to purchase one of Monet’s huge waterlily paintings that had just been put on show for the first time. Can you imagine?! Ten years later, in 1966 (not so long ago really) she passed away, having led a life steeped in Impressionism right to the end.

Exposition Julie Manet, la mémoire impressionniste au Musée Marmottan jusqu'au 20 mars 2022
© Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

The exhibition presents over a hundred paintings, pastels, sculptures, engravings and water colours loaned by museums from around the world, as well as private collections, many of which have never been seen before.

And to give you an idea of how large the exhibition is, the Museum has opened extra rooms on the first floor that are usually closed in order to accommodate it!

© Musée Marmottan

And if you’d like to delve into the subject even further, a catalogue of the exhibition has just been published (224 pages, 45€ here at amazon.fr).

Exposition Julie Manet, la mémoire impressionniste au Musée Marmottan jusqu'au 20 mars 2022
© Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

The exhibition Julie Manet, la mémoire impressionniste (Julie Manet, an Impressionist Heritage) is at the Marmottan Museum (here) until 20th March 2022

Open every day except Mondays from 10am-6pm (9pm Thursdays)

Admission: 12€ / 8.5€ / free for kids under 7 years old. Proof of vaccination obligatory. Max. 250 people

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