990000, 5 months ago to art The line for the show was so long but we made it. It was pretty good. Also I found out Degas’s family was in the cotton business and had to look it up. 😬 “Members of the Musson and Degas families owned slaves, supported the Confederacy, and had ties to and participated in white supremacist groups during Reconstruction.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cotton_Office_in_New_Orleans #ManetDegas #MetMuseum #Degas #EdgarDegas #Art #Painting #History #Slavery #Louisiana #NewOrleans #Cotton #Reconstruction Painting of an 1873 scene in a cotton business office Exhibit label: Degas A Cotton Office in New Orleans, 1873 Oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau (878.1.2) During his sojourn in New Orleans, Degas painted the lively office of his family's cotton business. The artist's maternal uncle, pictured in the foreground, assesses the quality of the valuable commodity, while his brother René reads the local Daily Times-Picyune and his other brother Achille leans casually against a counter at left, looking on as employees busy themselves with activity. Degas had hoped to sell the painting to a cotton spinner in Manchester. Ultimately acquired by the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Pau in 1878, this work was the artist's first to enter a public collection. Members of the Musson and Degas families owned slaves, supported the Confederacy, and had ties to and participated in white supremacist groups during Reconstruction. Germain and Michel Musson both owned slaves. Edgar Degas's mother had her dowry increased by her father's sale of a young slave girl. Michel Musson, Auguste and René Degas invested in confederate bonds. In 1873, Musson was briefly a supporter of the Louisiana Unification Movement, which sought interracial cooperation and public integration. However, he, René Degas, William Bell, and Bell's associate Frederick Nash Ogden, became members and leaders of the White League and would participate in the Battle of Liberty Place.
The line for the show was so long but we made it. It was pretty good. Also I found out Degas’s family was in the cotton business and had to look it up. 😬
“Members of the Musson and Degas families owned slaves, supported the Confederacy, and had ties to and participated in white supremacist groups during Reconstruction.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cotton_Office_in_New_Orleans
#ManetDegas #MetMuseum #Degas #EdgarDegas #Art #Painting #History #Slavery #Louisiana #NewOrleans #Cotton #Reconstruction
Painting of an 1873 scene in a cotton business office Exhibit label: Degas A Cotton Office in New Orleans, 1873 Oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau (878.1.2) During his sojourn in New Orleans, Degas painted the lively office of his family's cotton business. The artist's maternal uncle, pictured in the foreground, assesses the quality of the valuable commodity, while his brother René reads the local Daily Times-Picyune and his other brother Achille leans casually against a counter at left, looking on as employees busy themselves with activity. Degas had hoped to sell the painting to a cotton spinner in Manchester. Ultimately acquired by the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Pau in 1878, this work was the artist's first to enter a public collection. Members of the Musson and Degas families owned slaves, supported the Confederacy, and had ties to and participated in white supremacist groups during Reconstruction. Germain and Michel Musson both owned slaves. Edgar Degas's mother had her dowry increased by her father's sale of a young slave girl. Michel Musson, Auguste and René Degas invested in confederate bonds. In 1873, Musson was briefly a supporter of the Louisiana Unification Movement, which sought interracial cooperation and public integration. However, he, René Degas, William Bell, and Bell's associate Frederick Nash Ogden, became members and leaders of the White League and would participate in the Battle of Liberty Place.