Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
Self-portrait (Degas Saluant), 1863
Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, (1879) National Gallery, London
Edgar Degas, Self-Portrait, c. 1855. Red chalk on laid paper; 31 x 23.3 cm (12 3/16 x 9 3/16 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington.
A Cotton Office in New Orleans, 1873
The Bellelli Family
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The Bellelli Family, also known as Family Portrait, is an oil painting on canvas by Edgar Degas, painted c. 1858–1867, and housed in the Musée d'Orsay. A masterwork of Degas' youth, the painting is a
Edgar Degas
…he would remain for the next three years. In 1858, while staying with his aunt's family in Naples, he made the first studies for his early masterpiece The Bellelli Family. He also drew and painted numerous copies of works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and other Renaissance artists, but—contrary to conventional…
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Oil sketch of Giulia.
Study of Hands, an oil sketch of Laura Bellelli's hands. Musée d'Orsay. For Jean Sutherland Boggs, "the hands of the Bellellis play like the hands of mimes to give an indication of the relative composure of each family member."
Las Meninas. Diego Velázquez, 1656. Oil on canvas. Las Meninas may have inspired Degas to extend the space of the apartment by employing some of the same elements: here, too, a picture, a doorway, and a reflected image are prominent.