European Art and Old Masters

In a 1879 letter Morisot wrote to her sister Edma Morisot Pontillon:"Julie is like a big inflated balloon; she has been baptized (this will come as a great shock to some people) and vaccinated. Two necessary chores are thus behind me... My daughter is a Manet to her fingers; even, at this early date she is like her uncles, she has nothing of me." Rouart, Denis, ed. The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot. Translated by Betty W. Hubbard. New York, 1959, p. 101.Morisot married Édouard Manet's younger brother, Eugène Manet, who was an amateur painter. Their daughter was Julie Manet. Julie is the subject for about one-third of Morisot's paintings. Morisot’s first portrait of her daughter, Julie Manet (November 14, 1878 - November 21, 1966)