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Cotton Merchants in New Orleans by Degas in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2023
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
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
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