Julie Manet (Child With Cat) Renoir Poster

Julie Manet also known as L'enfant au chat (Child with cat) Berthe Morisot and her husband Eugène Manet, brother of the painter, had known Renoir for many years. Their relationship became much closer in the second half of the 1880s. The Manets' admiration for the painter's talent, and their friendship for the man, convinced them, in 1887, to commission a portrait of their daughter Julie. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."