Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable.(Review) From: The Mississippi Quarterly | Date: December 22, 1998| Author: Pontuale, Francesco | COPYRIGHT 1998 Mississippi State University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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 histo...

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