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.
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
group portrait
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oil painting ⓘ painting ⓘ |
| artist | Edgar Degas ⓘ |
| basedOn | Degas’s relatives in Florence ⓘ |
| collection |
Musée d'Orsay
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surface form:
Musée d’Orsay collection
|
| completionDate | circa 1867 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Edgar Degas ⓘ |
| 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 ⓘ |
| genre | portrait painting ⓘ |
| 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 ⓘ |
| hasComposition |
figures arranged across a domestic interior
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large horizontal format ⓘ |
| hasDimension | large scale ⓘ |
| 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 ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Paris ⓘ |
| location |
Musée d'Orsay
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surface form:
Musée d’Orsay
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| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement | Realism ⓘ |
| originalTitle | La Famille Bellelli ⓘ |
| period | 19th century ⓘ |
| support | canvas ⓘ |
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