Portrait of Elena Carafa

Portrait of Elena Carafa

Artist: Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917)

Original Dimensions: 27 5/8" x 21 5/8"

Location: National Gallery of Art, London

About Artwork: (About 1875) "Elena Carafa was Degas’s first cousin. Her mother, Stefanina, the Duchessa Montejasi-Cicerale, was the youngest sister of Degas’s father. Like many members of Degas’s family they lived in Naples, which Degas himself returned to in the winter of 1873–4, when he accompanied his dying father there. He was in Naples again in 1875 for the funeral of an uncle. This portrait was either painted during one of these visits – being in mourning may explain Elena’s black dress – or when Elena was in Paris. Degas had previously painted Elena with her younger sister, Camilla, around 1865–8. In that portrait, she also looks directly at us. Degas originally planned to show Elena facing towards the right, with a more pensive look. In the finished painting, he turned her face and upper body to the left so that she looks at us directly." - (National Gallery of Art, London)

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