Edgar Degas
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Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
Self-portrait (Degas Saluant), 1863
Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, (1879) National Gallery, London
Edgar Degas, Self-Portrait, c. 1855. Red chalk on laid paper; 31 x 23.3 cm (12 3/16 x 9 3/16 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington.
A Cotton Office in New Orleans, 1873
A Cotton Office in New Orleans, also known as Interior of an Office of Cotton Buyers in New Orleans and Portraits in an Office, is an oil painting by Edgar Degas. Degas depicts the interior of his mat
Edgar Degas
…Creole uncle, Michel Musson, on Esplanade Avenue, Degas produced a number of works, many depicting family members. One of Degas's New Orleans works, A Cotton Office in New Orleans, garnered favorable attention back in France, and was his only work purchased by a museum (the Pau) during his lifetime. Degas returned to Paris in…
Edgar Degas stayed in this rented mansion on Esplanade Avenue with various family members.
A Cotton Office in New Orleans shared compositional similarities to some of Degas's ballet paintings including The Dance Class at the Opera on the rue Le Peletier.
Compared to the meticulous A Cotton Office in New Orleans, Degas's Cotton Merchants in New Orleans is a more "impressionistic" sketch.