Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau
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The musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau is a town museum in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques in France. In 1864 it was founded by the Société des Amis des Arts de Pau and by its president Charles Le Cœur, who became
The museum in 2019.
Charles Le Cœur, 1869 portrait by Joseph-Auguste Rousselin.
The Parliament of Pau in 2008.
The museum entrance in 2015, before the 2019 works.
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
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau
…salons of the local Société des Amis des Arts, its collection covers 16th to 20th century European fine arts, especially 19th century French art such as A Cotton Office in New Orleans by Edgar Degas. The town's Société des Amis des Arts planned a museum for the fine arts in Pau over the course of the 19th century, particularly its…
Cottonexchange 1873 Degas
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.