Abstract
EDGAR DEGAS, as a young man, was inspired by one Italian family, the Bellellis, to paint the portrait which was certainly the triumph of the earliest part of his career and one of the masterpieces of his lifetime. This was The Bellelli Family, now in the Musee de l'Impressionnisme in Paris. In addition to this work and the numerous sketches made in preparation for it, Degas painted four portraits of the two Bellelli daughters, Giovanna and Giuliana: two single portraits in 1856, a double portrait in 1857, which he never finished, and another double portrait from the early sixties which is now in the Los Angeles County Museum. These paintings are so closely related and so interesting in the psychological awareness which they reveal that an examination of them separately will contribute to our understanding of this painter's work.
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