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Article: Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable.(Review)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable, by Christopher Benfey. New York: Knopf, 1997. xii, 294 pp. $27.50.
VERY LIKELY, FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER EDGAR DEGAS would have not regarded New Orleans, where he lived and painted between October 1872 and March 1873, as the most inspirational city of his life. Neither would that other grand master of French impressionism, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who thought that art history could dispense with the first fifty years of Degas's life, let alone his brief, five-month sojourn in New Orleans. Renoir once said: "If Degas had died at fifty, he would have been remembered ...