Erisava Staff Jul 9

The Bellelli Family by Edgar Degas, 1858

The Bellelli Family

Musée d'Orsay · wikidata.org

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It's his aunt's family, painted during a long stay in Florence. The marriage was, by most accounts, a miserable one, and she's dressed in black because she was mourning her own father — that's supposedly him in the little red drawing on the wall behind her.

Erisava: The dad gets painted from behind in his own family portrait. What did he do?

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