Degas in New Orleans: A Creole Sojourn
- 1999
- 29m
In 1872, Edgar Degas visited his maternal Creole family, the Mussons, at their home in New Orleans, in what was to prove a pivotal moment in his career. Although he had painted ballerinas an... Read allIn 1872, Edgar Degas visited his maternal Creole family, the Mussons, at their home in New Orleans, in what was to prove a pivotal moment in his career. Although he had painted ballerinas and the races, he was not well known and had never shown in a commercial gallery. In the fam... Read allIn 1872, Edgar Degas visited his maternal Creole family, the Mussons, at their home in New Orleans, in what was to prove a pivotal moment in his career. Although he had painted ballerinas and the races, he was not well known and had never shown in a commercial gallery. In the family portraiture and paintings of cotton merchants accomplished during this brief five-mont... Read all