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Who painted it?
Who painted “A Cotton Office in New Orleans”?
“A Cotton Office in New Orleans” was painted by Edgar Degas in 1873. Where to see it: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau.
What to look for
Edgar Degas: dancers, laundresses and horse races caught off-centre as if by a camera, pastel strokes, odd cropped viewpoints.
Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Wikipedia
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