La famille bellelli d edgar degas biography
La famille bellelli d edgar degas biography
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The Bellelli Family ()
The portrait is organized very deliberately, with each member of the family seemingly isolated in their own space.
Everyone faces in different directions, with only one looking towards the viewer. The figures of the two daughters, both dressed in black dresses and white pinafores, are turned towards the viewer, while their mother adopts a threequarters pose and a dignified but unyielding expression.
She is wearing a black dress in mourning for her father, Hilaire Degas, who has recently died and whose face appears in the framed portrait on the wall behind her.
La famille bellelli d edgar degas biography summary
She stands with one hand resting maternally on the shoulder of Giovanna who stands by her side. Her other daughter Giulia, sits on a small chair in the centre of the composition, mid-way between her mother and her father. The latter - an Italian nationalist journalist exiled from Naples by the Austrian authorities following the failed Revolution of - sits apart from his wife and daughters w