Edgar Degas came from a prosperous banking family with branches in Naples, and he painted numerous portraits of his relatives during visits to Italy in the 1850s and 1860s, developing his skill as a portraitist before turning primarily to ballet and modern Parisian life. This double portrait of his uncle Henri and young cousin Lucie reflects that early, more traditional phase of his career, showing the careful attention to psychology and family relationship that Degas carried into his later, more experimental work. Degas's family portraits are valued for revealing the formal training that underpinned his later innovations.
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