What a delight to learn about Morisot's daughter Julie. I had no idea she had been a painter, too. Or that her mother's paintings included her daughter in so many of my favorite paintings.
Thank you, Jill! I too was surprised by the sheer volume of her paintings of Julie. As an aside, I also wonder if we know more about Mary Cassatt's paintings of her family members than we do about Morisot because Cassatt (like us) was American?
That makes sense. The children in Mary Cassatt’s paintings have always seems obviously hers and makes me wonder why it wouldn’t have been so for Morisot. That American lens I look through reveals more than a lapse in the facts but in my reasoning
Really loved this, Sarah, and you portray Julie Manet so sympathetically. You are right about the burden of having famous & talented parents – added to the understandable wish to have a child of her own, especially after losing her mother so young.
Thank you, Ann! Yes, when I started looking into Julie Manet's life, I half-expected that she would have gone her mother one better, aiming to be groundbreaking in some way. But when your mother is the groundbreaking artist, and when your beloved uncle is even more groundbreaking, the father of modern art, and then to lose them both (plus your father) so early, how could could you?
What a stunning shot of Otto! Thank you for this introduction to Julie, whom I know from her mother’s art and Renoir’s portrait. She had only a modest talent, it seems. How hard to be the daughter of a major talent like Morisot.
Otto says thank you! Yes, the more I think about Julie Manet and painting, the more I think that her mother was an impossible act to follow. Though I also think we can never know what she might have become, since she gave up (or never really began?) serious painting at such a young age.
So interesting! Beautiful paintings...
Thanks, Amy!
What a delight to learn about Morisot's daughter Julie. I had no idea she had been a painter, too. Or that her mother's paintings included her daughter in so many of my favorite paintings.
Thank you, Jill! I too was surprised by the sheer volume of her paintings of Julie. As an aside, I also wonder if we know more about Mary Cassatt's paintings of her family members than we do about Morisot because Cassatt (like us) was American?
That makes sense. The children in Mary Cassatt’s paintings have always seems obviously hers and makes me wonder why it wouldn’t have been so for Morisot. That American lens I look through reveals more than a lapse in the facts but in my reasoning
Really loved this, Sarah, and you portray Julie Manet so sympathetically. You are right about the burden of having famous & talented parents – added to the understandable wish to have a child of her own, especially after losing her mother so young.
Thank you, Ann! Yes, when I started looking into Julie Manet's life, I half-expected that she would have gone her mother one better, aiming to be groundbreaking in some way. But when your mother is the groundbreaking artist, and when your beloved uncle is even more groundbreaking, the father of modern art, and then to lose them both (plus your father) so early, how could could you?
What a stunning shot of Otto! Thank you for this introduction to Julie, whom I know from her mother’s art and Renoir’s portrait. She had only a modest talent, it seems. How hard to be the daughter of a major talent like Morisot.
Otto says thank you! Yes, the more I think about Julie Manet and painting, the more I think that her mother was an impossible act to follow. Though I also think we can never know what she might have become, since she gave up (or never really began?) serious painting at such a young age.
So glad to get this follow up to the earlier piece. So interesting— thanks for doing and sharing this research!