Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet - Softcover

Manet, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784539244 ISBN 13: 9781784539245

Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

Julie Manet, the daughter of Édouard Manet and the most famous female Impressionist artist, Berthe Morisot, was born in Paris on November 14 into a wealthy and cultured milieu at the height of the Impressionist era. Many young girls still confide their inner thoughts to diaries, and it is hardly surprising that, with her mother giving all her encouragement, Julie would prove to be no exception to the rule.

At the age of 10, Julie began writing her “memoirs,” but it wasn’t until August 1893, at 14, that Julie began her diary in earnest: no neat, leather-bound volume with lock and key, but just untidy notes scribbled in old exercise books, often in pencil, the presentation as spontaneous as its contents. Her extraordinary diary―newly translated here by Jane Roberts, an expert of Impressionism―reveals a vivid depiction of a vital period in France’s cultural history, seen through the youthful and precocious eyes of the youngest member of what was surely the most prominent artistic families of the time. Her notes provide fascinating insights into the lives of French painters, including Renoir, Degas, Monet, and Sisley, as well the 1896 state visit of Tsar Nicholas II and the Dreyfus Affair, which was then raging in France.

Related U.S. Impressionist Exhibitions:

Berthe Morisot Exhibition
https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/morisot

Begins June 20, 2018 - Québec
Winter 2018 - Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
February to May 2019 - Dallas
June to September 19, 2019 - Musee d'Orsay

WOMEN ARTISTS IN THE AGE OF IMPRESSIONISM
http://denverartmuseum.org/exhibitions/her-paris-women-artists-age-impressionism

Begins October 22, 2017 - Denver Art Museum
February to May 2018 - Speed Art Museum, Louisville
June to September 2018 - Clark Williamstown

About this title

About the Author

Jane Roberts is an art historian who has worked for over 20 years in the international art market including Sotheby's and the Cabinet des Dessins at the Louvre, specialising in Impressionism. She now runs her own consultancy in Paris. She received the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Artes et Lettres in 2011. She is also the author of Jacques-Émile Blanche.

Julie Manet was a French painter, model, diarist and art collector. She was the daughter of Eugene Manet and the most famous female Impressionist artist, Berthe Morisot.

Review

“An enchanting book... a delightful story with aptly chosen illustrations”

(Book of the Year, Financial Times)

"Francophiles will dote on the lively diary of Julie Manet which provides valuable insights into the lives of Degas, Renoir and others in that charmed circle."
(Richard Edmonds, Birmingham Post (UK))

"Often the most trivial details in Julie’s diary are the most revealing." (Richard Dorment, Daily Telegraph)

Julie’s most vivid sentences are visual, her pages enlivened with brief descriptions of landscapes and anecdotes from her daily life among the artists. (The New York Times 2017-08-12)

Edition details

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1784539244
• ISBN 13: 9781784539245
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256