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Family Portrait (The Bellelli Family)
Edgar Degas French
Not on view
It is difficult to trace the history of this painting, an exceptionally large portrait of Degas’s beloved relatives in Florence. Among the artist’s largest canvases, it was a sensation when it was rediscovered at his studio sale after his death in 1918. Degas may have worked on it while he was in Florence in the 1850s or painted it from numerous studies after he had returned to Paris. The audacious portrait shows his austere aunt braced by her two daughters and standing apart from her husband, who sits with his back to the viewer.
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