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Title: Cotton Merchants in New Orleans Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris) Date: 1873 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on linen Dimensions: 23 1/8 × 28 1/4 in. (58.7 × 71.8 cm) Frame: 32 15/16 × 38 3/16 × 3 in. (83.7 × 97 × 7.6 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Herbert N. Straus (1929.90) In a letter from New Orleans to James Tissot, Degas wrote, “I am preparing another [painting], less complicated and more spontaneous, better art, where the people are wearing summer dress, white walls, a sea of cotton on the tables.” Set in a light and airy space centered on a bed of tactile cotton, this breezy composition captures the casual transaction of business in the New Orleans office of the artist’s uncle, Michel Musson. One imagines that this is the “Louisiana art” Degas aimed to create, as mentioned in his letters. The seascape on the wall calls attention to the transatlantic trade of cotton, in which his brothers were directly involved as owners of a firm that purchased the raw material on behalf of French merchants. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844642

Title: Cotton Merchants in New Orleans Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris) Date: 1873 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on linen Dimensions: 23 1/8 × 28 1/4 in. (58.7 × 71.8 cm) Frame: 32 15/16 × 38 3/16 × 3 in. (83.7 × 97 × 7.6 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Herbert N. Straus (1929.90) In a letter from New Orleans to James Tissot, Degas wrote, “I am preparing another [painting], less complicated and more spontaneous, better art, where the people are wearing summer dress, white walls, a sea of cotton on the tables.” Set in a light and airy space centered on a bed of tactile cotton, this breezy composition captures the casual transaction of business in the New Orleans office of the artist’s uncle, Michel Musson. One imagines that this is the “Louisiana art” Degas aimed to create, as mentioned in his letters. The seascape on the wall calls attention to the transatlantic trade of cotton, in which his brothers were directly involved as owners of a firm that purchased the raw material on behalf of French merchants. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844642

Title: Cotton Merchants in New Orleans Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris) Date: 1873 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on linen Dimensions: 23 1/8 × 28 1/4 in. (58.7 × 71.8 cm) Frame: 32 15/16 × 38 3/16 × 3 in. (83.7 × 97 × 7.6 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Herbert N. Straus (1929.90) In a letter from New Orleans to James Tissot, Degas wrote, “I am preparing another [painting], less complicated and more spontaneous, better art, where the people are wearing summer dress, white walls, a sea of cotton on the tables.” Set in a light and airy space centered on a bed of tactile cotton, this breezy composition captures the casual transaction of business in the New Orleans office of the artist’s uncle, Michel Musson. One imagines that this is the “Louisiana art” Degas aimed to create, as mentioned in his letters. The seascape on the wall calls attention to the transatlantic trade of cotton, in which his brothers were directly involved as owners of a firm that purchased the raw material on behalf of French merchants. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844642

Title: Mademoiselle Fiocre in the Ballet "La Source" Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris) Date: ca. 1867–68 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 51 1/2 × 57 1/8 in., 166 lb. (130.8 × 145.1 cm, 75.3 kg) Framed: 63 × 69 × 6 1/4 in. (160 × 175.3 × 15.9 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum, Gift of James H. Post, A. Augustus Healy, and John T. Underwood (21.111) Degas submitted this painting to the 1868 Salon with the title Portrait de Mlle E. F. à propos du ballet ‘La Source,’ referring to Eugénie Fiocre, a famous dancer at the Paris Opera. Although its exhibited title suggests that he intended the work as a portrait, it otherwise gives the impression of a literary or mythological subject. Rather than show the performance, Degas captures the young woman and other dancers at rest during rehearsal, providing little indication of a stage set beyond the pink ballet slippers visible between the horse’s legs. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844733

Title: Mademoiselle Fiocre in the Ballet "La Source" Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris) Date: ca. 1867–68 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 51 1/2 × 57 1/8 in., 166 lb. (130.8 × 145.1 cm, 75.3 kg) Framed: 63 × 69 × 6 1/4 in. (160 × 175.3 × 15.9 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum, Gift of James H. Post, A. Augustus Healy, and John T. Underwood (21.111) Degas submitted this painting to the 1868 Salon with the title Portrait de Mlle E. F. à propos du ballet ‘La Source,’ referring to Eugénie Fiocre, a famous dancer at the Paris Opera. Although its exhibited title suggests that he intended the work as a portrait, it otherwise gives the impression of a literary or mythological subject. Rather than show the performance, Degas captures the young woman and other dancers at rest during rehearsal, providing little indication of a stage set beyond the pink ballet slippers visible between the horse’s legs. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844733

Title: Mademoiselle Fiocre in the Ballet "La Source" Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris) Date: ca. 1867–68 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 51 1/2 × 57 1/8 in., 166 lb. (130.8 × 145.1 cm, 75.3 kg) Framed: 63 × 69 × 6 1/4 in. (160 × 175.3 × 15.9 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum, Gift of James H. Post, A. Augustus Healy, and John T. Underwood (21.111) Degas submitted this painting to the 1868 Salon with the title Portrait de Mlle E. F. à propos du ballet ‘La Source,’ referring to Eugénie Fiocre, a famous dancer at the Paris Opera. Although its exhibited title suggests that he intended the work as a portrait, it otherwise gives the impression of a literary or mythological subject. Rather than show the performance, Degas captures the young woman and other dancers at rest during rehearsal, providing little indication of a stage set beyond the pink ballet slippers visible between the horse’s legs. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844733

Title: Mademoiselle Fiocre in the Ballet "La Source" Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris) Date: ca. 1867–68 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 51 1/2 × 57 1/8 in., 166 lb. (130.8 × 145.1 cm, 75.3 kg) Framed: 63 × 69 × 6 1/4 in. (160 × 175.3 × 15.9 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum, Gift of James H. Post, A. Augustus Healy, and John T. Underwood (21.111) Degas submitted this painting to the 1868 Salon with the title Portrait de Mlle E. F. à propos du ballet ‘La Source,’ referring to Eugénie Fiocre, a famous dancer at the Paris Opera. Although its exhibited title suggests that he intended the work as a portrait, it otherwise gives the impression of a literary or mythological subject. Rather than show the performance, Degas captures the young woman and other dancers at rest during rehearsal, providing little indication of a stage set beyond the pink ballet slippers visible between the horse’s legs. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844733

Title: Mademoiselle Fiocre in the Ballet "La Source" Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris) Date: ca. 1867–68 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 51 1/2 × 57 1/8 in., 166 lb. (130.8 × 145.1 cm, 75.3 kg) Framed: 63 × 69 × 6 1/4 in. (160 × 175.3 × 15.9 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum, Gift of James H. Post, A. Augustus Healy, and John T. Underwood (21.111) Degas submitted this painting to the 1868 Salon with the title Portrait de Mlle E. F. à propos du ballet ‘La Source,’ referring to Eugénie Fiocre, a famous dancer at the Paris Opera. Although its exhibited title suggests that he intended the work as a portrait, it otherwise gives the impression of a literary or mythological subject. Rather than show the performance, Degas captures the young woman and other dancers at rest during rehearsal, providing little indication of a stage set beyond the pink ballet slippers visible between the horse’s legs. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844733

Title: Mademoiselle Fiocre in the Ballet "La Source" Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris) Date: ca. 1867–68 Geography: Country of Origin France Culture: French Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 51 1/2 × 57 1/8 in., 166 lb. (130.8 × 145.1 cm, 75.3 kg) Framed: 63 × 69 × 6 1/4 in. (160 × 175.3 × 15.9 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum, Gift of James H. Post, A. Augustus Healy, and John T. Underwood (21.111) Degas submitted this painting to the 1868 Salon with the title Portrait de Mlle E. F. à propos du ballet ‘La Source,’ referring to Eugénie Fiocre, a famous dancer at the Paris Opera. Although its exhibited title suggests that he intended the work as a portrait, it otherwise gives the impression of a literary or mythological subject. Rather than show the performance, Degas captures the young woman and other dancers at rest during rehearsal, providing little indication of a stage set beyond the pink ballet slippers visible between the horse’s legs. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/844733