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Article: Degas in New Orleans
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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The French Impressionist's visit to Louisiana in 1872-73 inspired a series of memorable, sometimes haunting portraits of his New Orleans family, as well as stunning scenes of life in one of America's most beautiful cities.
EDGAR DEGAS is widely regarded as the quintessential Parisian painter of ballet dancers, bathers, and laundresses, as well as the racetrack and theater. In October, 1872, the not-yet-famous artist left Paris for a journey to America. His destination was New Orleans, birthplace of his mother. There he would spend the winter with his relatives in a handsome mansion on Esplanade Avenue. He had come from France by steamer to New York, where he boarded a train for the ...