Degas Painting
The renowned French artist Edgar Degas painted the picture of a cotton office seen here in 1873 while visiting his mother's Louisiana relatives.
Although certain sources label the painting as depicting the Cotton Exchange, the setting of the painting is actually the office of a cotton factor in a nearby building known as "Factors' Row."
Read more about this topic: New Orleans Cotton Exchange
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—Edgar Degas (1834–1917)
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