Edgar Degas
(1834 - 1917) 

   
Edgar Degas (born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. Although Degas is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist, and did not paint outdoors as many Impressionists did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Degas

The Bellelli Family
Between 1858 and 1869
Oil on canvas
201 x 249,5 cm
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/portrait-de-famille-9998

 

Between the ages of 22 and 26, Edgar Degas completed his training in Italy, where part of his familly lived. Here he painted his father's sister, Laure, with her husband, the baron Bellelli (1812-1864) and her two daughters, Giula and Giovanna.
The baron was an Italian patriot, banned from Naples, who lived an exile in Florence. His wife is in mourning for her father, Hilaire, who died recently and whose portrait appears on the framed redline painting close to his daughter's face.