Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet

Julie Manet the daughter of douard 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 wasnt 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 diarynewly translated here by Jane Roberts an expert of Impressionismreveals a vivid depiction of a vital period in Frances 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 - Qubec Winter 2018 - Barnes Foundation Philadelphia February to May 2019 - Dallas June to September 19 2019 - Musee dOrsay 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