Edgar Degas is admired today as the quintessential artist of Paris: painter of ballet dancers, bathers, and laundresses, of the racetrack and the theater. "Degas and New Orleans: A French Impressionist in America" explores a different Degas in another place: a sojourner with his family in New Orleans, on the unique occasion when the subtlest and ...
Edgar Degas's arrival in New Orleans in October 1872 was both a homecoming and an exotic sojourn in a land of cotton, steamboats, beautiful women of African descent, and white mansions with Iluted columns the artist was almost a son of Louisiana, his mother having been born to a prominent French Creole family, but he was also already recognized as ...
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