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Julie Manet, a legacy of art

2021-10-18T14:58:13.057Z


In Paris, the Marmottan-Monet museum is devoting an exhibition to “the child of impressionism” who, until his death in 1966, was dedicated to promoting the movement.


From Julie Manet, "the child of impressionism", who died at the age of 88 in 1966, we have youth and adolescence.

Less the rest of his life.

The only daughter, passionately cherished and furiously painted, by Berthe Morisot - the only woman among the 30 artists of the first impressionist exhibition at Nadar in 1874 -, the niece of the author of the resounding

Déjeuner surherbe

and

Olympia

, the protégé of Renoir and Degas, Mallarmé's pupil when she was orphaned at 16, Paul Valéry's cousin by marriage: this woman is best known through her

Journal.

A work that she stopped when she was 21, in 1899.

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In Paris, the Marmottan-Monet Museum, which preserves a large collection of works, letters and family notebooks, is devoting its first exhibition to it.

Scientific director, Marianne Mathieu, with her assistants, combed all the internal and external archives, starting from scratch, completing as much as possible these sixty-seven incomplete years.

So, today,

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Source: lefigaro

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