"Family Portrait" depicts the artist surrounded by his family - his wife, children, parents Beya Ben Said and Hédi Khayachi and parents in law Hasseina Khaznadar and Ismail Bey. The family is all there. Khayachi, his wife, his two daughters, his son and all his paintings show how much this is an extended family. He himself is in the picture, and the balance between the five human beings and the five paintings is clear, but other stretchers holding canvases are seen from behind, the paintings turned to the wall. But this is a lovely nosegay.
Canavas within canvases, paintings within paintings, and there is the artist in full command.
Taj El Molk sits for her father, who seems to muse on his daughter as much as on the picture. Numerous points of light illuminate a room whose window is closed.
