The Bellelli Family

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.
Dimensions: 200 x 250 cm.

This is one of the earliest works by Degas. Here, the artist portrayed his aunt, her husband and their children. The woman is pregnant and dressed in black, as her father had recently died. The picture, expressing a certain distance of the family members from each other, is marked by some tension.