This is one of the preliminary studies for the double portrait that Degas painted of the two Bellelli sisters. They were the daughters of the Italian baron Gennaro Bellelli and Clotilde Laure De Gas, the artist’s aunt. Between 1858 and 1867, after a stay with his family, Degas painted a famous family portrait of his cousins and their parents in an interior. He probably used a daguerreotype - an early type of photograph - for this double portrait drawing.
Specifications
| Title | Double Portrait of Giovanna and Giulia Bellelli |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Pencil and charcoal |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 294 mm Width 228 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Edgar Degas
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| Accession number | F II 166 (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1865-1866 |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Internal exhibitions |
De Collectie Twee - wissel V, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009) |
| External exhibitions |
Boijmans bij de Buren - Meesterlijk! (2019) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | France > Western Europe > Europe |
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Edgar Degas
Parijs 1834 - Parijs 1917
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris in 1855. He took a number of study trips to Italy and initially painted mainly...
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