Portrait of Viscount Lepika with daughters by Edgar Degas

Portrait of Viscount Lepika with daughters by Edgar Degas

The canvas “The Portrait of Viscount Lepic with Daughters”, also known as “The Square of Concord”, represents both a portrait and an urban landscape, and a sketch made in the genre of impressionism, photographed with truthfulness, which fixed the moment from Parisian life.

Degas captured his friend, aristocrat Louis Lepic, a man of talent and versatility. In the list of his hobbies – theater, dogs. In addition, Lepik was considered an artist of the average hand, but a virtuoso engraver. The painting depicts the daughters of the aristocrat – Janine and Eylau, and the family of a Russian hound breed dog. Experts believe that the figure of the man on the left belongs to the novelist Louis Alevi.

This work glorifies not only Degas himself, as a talented master of painting, but also is a masterpiece in the history of all art.

The picture became available to researchers only in 1995. In Russia, as a trophy, it has been in existence since 1945. Art historians put forward the most diverse versions of the semantic layers embedded in the work, and consider the political and melodramatic components, but give an exact answer other than Degas, now it is unlikely anyone will be able to.

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