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Hilaire Degas
Edgar Degas French
Not on view
Degas’s grandfather was eighty-seven years old when the artist visited him at his villa in Naples in 1857. He had already made several portraits of the scion of the Italian branch of his family, but this is among the most finished. Despite its modest size, it captures the man’s imposing stature as well as a frank intimacy. Hilaire also appears in a red-chalk drawing in the background of the large portrait of the Bellelli family on view in this gallery.
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