A Cotton Office in New Orleans

Le Bureau de coton à La Nouvelle-Orléans

A Cotton Office in New Orleans

Edgar Degas · 1873

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau

Pau, France

About this painting

Painted and finished during Degas's real 1873 visit to his uncle's cotton firm in New Orleans, this was the first Impressionist painting bought by a museum.

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

73 × 92 cm (28.7 × 36.2 in)

Painted at

New Orleans, United States

Current location

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau, Pau

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