Eugene Manet and His Daughter in the Garden 1883 Berthe Morisot

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or his wife

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, and devoted much of his efforts to supporting his wife's career. Manet was the middle of the three sons of Auguste Manet, an official at the French Ministry of Justice. He was born in Paris, 22 months after his older brother Édouard in January 1832, and 16 months before his younger brother Gustave in March 1835. He was named after his mother Eugénie-Désirée (née Fournier). The brothers Édouard and Eugène took piano lessons from Suzanne Leenhoff from 1849; she eventually married Édouard in 1863. Eugéne served in the French Army, and then studied law, but did not follow his father into a legal career. He travelled to Italy with Édouard in 1853 to study

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paintings in Florence, Venice, and Rome. Berthe Morisot developed a close relationship with Édouard Manet from 1868, but they could not be married. Instead, she married his brother Eugène in

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on 22 December 1874 (sometimes described as a marriage of convenience). Their wedding gift from

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was a portrait of Eugène Manet. Manet and Morisot had one daughter,

Julie Manet Julie Manet (14 November 1878 – 14 July 1966) was a French painter, model, diarist, and art collector. Biography Born in Paris, Manet was the daughter and only child of artist Berthe Morisot and Eugène Manet, younger brother of painter Édou ...

, born on 14 November 1878. Manet was depicted by his brother in his paintings ''

Music in the Tuileries ''Music in the Tuileries'' is an 1862 painting by Édouard Manet. It is owned by the National Gallery, London and the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin as part of the shared Lane Bequest. The work is an early example of Manet's painterly style, inspir ...

'' (1862), and was probably a model for the right male figure in '' Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe'' (1863) which has been identified as either Eugène or his dark-haired younger brother Gustave Manet, and may be a composite of the two. Eugène may also be the ''chiffonnier'' (rag-picker) to the right in his brother's painting ''Philosophers'' of 1865, and was depicted with Édouard's wife Suzanne in ''On the Beach'' (1873). He was also painted several times by his wife. Like his brother Édouard, Eugène had

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political sympathies. He published a semi-autobiographical novel, "Victimes!", in 1889. He suffered from ill health from 1891 and died in Paris the following year. He was survived by his wife and daughter; Morisot herself died in 1895. His older brother Édouard had died in 1883 and his younger brother Gustave in 1884. File:Berthe Morisot 002.jpg,

, ''Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight'', 1875, Musée Marmottan Monet File:Eugene Manet and His Daughter at Bougival 1881 Berthe Morisot.jpg,

, ''Eugène Manet and His Daughter at Bougival,'' 1881 File:Manet-grave.jpg , Grave of Eugène Manet and Berthe Morisot and bust of Édouard Manet in the

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File:Paris Cimetière Passy B.Morisot558.JPG, Details of gravestone

References

''Manet and the Family Romance''
Nancy Locke, p. 54–56 {{DEFAULTSORT:Manet, Eugene 1833 births 1892 deaths 19th-century French painters Édouard Manet Artists from Paris French Army soldiers