The Bellelli Family
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The Bellelli Family is a large, early realist portrait painting by Edgar Degas depicting his aunt’s family in a tense domestic interior, often seen as a psychological and compositional precursor to his later work.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
group portrait
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oil painting → painting → |
| artist |
Edgar Degas
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| basedOn |
Degas’s relatives in Florence
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| collection |
Musée d’Orsay collection
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| completionDate |
circa 1867
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| countryOfOrigin |
France
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| creator |
Edgar Degas
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| depicts |
Degas’s aunt Laura Bellelli
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Gennaro Bellelli → Giovanna Bellelli → Giulia Bellelli → a bourgeois family interior → a framed portrait of the girls’ grandfather → a tense domestic atmosphere → bourgeois interior furnishings → psychological distance between family members → |
| depictsSetting |
Florence
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| genre |
portrait painting
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| hasArtHistoricalSignificance |
important example of 19th‑century realist portraiture
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key early masterpiece of Degas → |
| hasArtisticStyle |
early realist style of Degas
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naturalistic representation → |
| hasColorPalette |
subdued tones
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| hasComposition |
figures arranged across a domestic interior
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large horizontal format → |
| hasDimension |
large scale
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| hasInterpretation |
often read as a study of family estrangement
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seen as a precursor to Degas’s later compositional experiments → |
| hasTheme |
domestic life
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family tension → psychological realism → |
| inception |
1858
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1867 → |
| influenced |
Degas’s later interior scenes
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Degas’s later psychological portraits → |
| languageOfTitle |
French
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| locatedIn |
Paris
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| location |
Musée d’Orsay
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| materialUsed |
oil paint
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| movement |
Realism
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| originalTitle |
La Famille Bellelli
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| period |
19th century
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| support |
canvas
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Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
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Edgar Degas
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