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Edgar Degas
Self-Portrait, oil on paper by Edgar Degas, c. 1855â56; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
A Cotton Office in New Orleans (1873) is a significant work by Edgar Degas created during his 1872 visit to his relatives in New Orleans. The painting serves as a prime example of his experiments in family portraiture, capturing the interior of his family's business office during a period when he was also grappling with the onset of vision problems.1