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The Bellelli Family also known as Family Portrait is an oil painting on canvas by Edgar Degas (1834–1917) painted ca. 1858–1867 and housed in the Musée d’Orsay. A masterwork of Degas’ youth the painting is a portrait of his aunt her husband and their two young daughters. While finishing his artistic training in Italy Degas drew and painted his aunt Laura her husband the baron Gennaro Bellelli (1812–1864) and their daughters Giulia and Giovanna.