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Portrait of René-Hillaire De Gas
An 1857 oil on canvas, Portrait of René-Hillaire De Gas, by Edgar Degas (1834-1917), the French impressionist painter. Degas first made a name for himself as a portrait painter. Here he captures his grandfather, a prominent Neapolitan entrepreneur. (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
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- Thomson, Belinda. Impressionism. Thames & Hudson, 2022.