Bella Rosenfeld

Bella with White Collar, by Marc Chagall, 1917.

Bella Rosenfeld Chagall (Russian: Бэлла Розенфельд-Шагал, Yiddish: בעלאַ ראָזענפעלד) (14 December 1889[1] – 2 September 1944) was a Jewish Russian writer born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire, nowadays Belarus, and the first wife of painter Marc Chagall. She was the subject of many of Chagall's paintings including Bella au col blanc (Bella with White Collar) in 1917, and appears posthumously in Bouquet près de la fenêtre, painted in 1959–1960.

  1. ^ Lozinskaia, Rita (10 November 2019). "Love story in paintings: Marc Chagall and Bella Rosenfeld". arthive.com. Retrieved 29 April 2023.