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    The Cotton Exchange, New Orleans by Edgar Degas

    The Cotton Office in New Orleans is an 1873 oil painting by Edgar Degas. In it, Degas depicts the moment when his uncle Michel Musson's cotton brokerage business went bankrupt in an economic crash, according to Michael McMahon of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The firm was swamped by the postwar growth of the much larger Cotton Exchange. In the painting, Musson is seen examining raw cotton for its quality while Degas' brother Rene reads The Daily Picayune. It carried the bankruptcy news. Another brother, Achille, rests against a window wall at left while others, including Musson's partners, go about their business.

    The Cotton Office in New Orleans was the first painting by Degas to be purchased by a museum, and the first by an Impressionist. Degas' sale of the piece marked a turning point in his career as he moved from being a struggling, unrecognized artist to a recognized and financially stable artist, according to Marilyn Bro

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    Courtyard of a House (New Orleans, sketch)

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    Title:Courtyard of a House (New Orleans, sketch)

    Artist:Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)

    Date:1873

    Geography:Country of Origin France

    Culture:French

    Medium:Oil on canvas

    Dimensions:23 5/8 × 28 15/16 in. (60 × 73.5 cm)
    Framed: 34 5/8 × 40 1/4 × 4 3/4 in. (88 × 102.3 × 12 cm)

    Classification:Paintings

    Credit Line:Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen (238 WH)

    Object Number:MD.012

    Degas Studio Sale inom, 6-8 May 1918, no. 45, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris;
    Bought at the above sale by Jos Hessel for Fr 17,600 for the Hansen, Heilbuth, Winkel, & Magnussen consortium, Copenhagen;
    By 1918, in the collection of Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen;
    Bequeathed in 1951 by the widow of the above to the state toward the establishment of the Ordrupgaardsamlingen, which opened in 1953.

    Paris. Musée d'Orsay. "Manet / Degas," March 28–July 23, 2023.

    New York. The

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    Degas and New Orleans!
    Degas created 18 paintings, 4 drawings and 5 letters while here in New Orleans in 1872 and 1873. Also, Portraits in an Office, The New Orleans Cotton Exchange painting, the only painting to sell to a museum in Degas' lifetime, was painted here! However, the most important of his New Orleans accomplishments was his change in artistic style, creating (in his words), "Better Art", and re-prioritizing the goal of his youth, to begin a new art movement. This came to pass one year after leaving New Orleans and on his return to Paris, at the birth of the Impressionist Movement of 1874 and beyond!

    Maisons des Ilustres! The Houses of the Illustrious!
    Degas House is the only home or studio of the French Impressionist Master Edgar Degas, in the world, and is now included in the French Ministry of Culture's network of the Maisons des Illustres or Houses of the Illustrious. Degas House is now in the company of 236 houses in the global network, including the houses of Na

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