#Musee des Beaux-Arts de Pau

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The Good Samaritan, Théodule Ribot, 1870

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Attributed to Francois de Troy (b.1645 - d.1730), 'Portrait of Madame de Miramion (b.1629 - d.1696), also known as Marie Bonneau de Rubelles Beauharnais de Miramion', oil on canvas, no date (circa 1690), French, currently in the collection of the Louvre, on long term loan to the Musee des Beaux Arts, Pau, France.

Formerly in the collection of Dr. Louis la Caze, circa 1869.

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Edgar Degas - Mercato del cotone a New Orleans - 1873

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Edgar Degas - Mercato del cotone a New Orleans - 1873

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Die Faelle von Tivoli, 1768 von Hubert Robert Öl auf Leinwand, 1768 Musee des Beaux-Arts, Pau, France

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Christus am Kreuz zwischen der Jungfrau und dem Johannes (Tempera auf Tafel) von Spanish School Tempera auf der Platte Musee des Beaux-Arts, Pau, France

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[artdaily7]

Tear It Down by Jack Gilbert

We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining the morning, we find a morning that comes just after darkness. We can break through marriage into marriage. By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond affection and wade mouth-deep into love. We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars. But going back toward childhood will not help. The village is not better than Pittsburgh. Only Pittsburgh is more than Pittsburgh. Rome is better than Rome in the same way the sound of racoon tongues licking the inside walls of the garbage tub is more than the stir of them in the muck of the garbage. Love is not enough. We die and are put into the earth forever. We should insist while there is still time. We must eat through the wildness of her sweet body already in our bed to reach the body within the body.

Edgar Degas 1873 A Cotton Office in New Orleans, oil on canvas, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Pau

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Edgar Degas

(19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917)

"A Cotton Office in New Orleans" / Interior of an Office of Cotton Buyers in New Orleans / Portraits in an Office (New Orleans) - 1873

oil, canvas : 73 x 92 cm

Musee des Beaux-Arts de Pau, Pau, France

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Bartholomeus van der Helst (b.1613 - d.1670), 'Portrait of a Lady', oil on canvas, Dutch, no date (17th century), currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, on long term loan to the Musee de Beaux Arts, Pau, France.

#bartholomeus van der helst #unknown sitter #known artist #oil on canvas #dutch #1600s #musee de beaux arts pau #louvre #paris #pau

[degasdigitaltravelblog]

Deuxième Entrée Journal De Voyage: Anées 1870 à 1875  (Second Travel Journal Entry Years from 1870 to 1875)

My father had immensely influenced my life by taking my siblings and I to museums and opera houses. He wanted us to be more cultural and aristocratic like him. I painted The Orchestra at the Opera (1869) during my trip to this wonderful establishment.

The Orchestra at the Opera (1869).

The opera house Palais Garnier opened in 1875. I became a frequent visitor of this magnificent place. It was a towering edifice of marble ornament and gilded decor, all but encrusted with antique statuary and classic murals. 

Garnier designed a mirrored foyer for backstage, he wrote, “as a setting for the charming swarms of ballerinas, in their picturesque and coquettish costumes.” 

But before then I have already been to the former opera house was where I studied the ballet classes of the little rats and this is the venue by which their performances are held. I analyze all their movements, no complicated step ever escapes my gaze.

Sometimes, they look like a dog pissing.

I am deeply fascinated by the opera; however, Edouard Manet and I served in the National Guard when Prussia sieged Paris. This undeniably left me in shock and made producing artwork unusually difficult for me.

A Cotton Office in New Orleans (1873) and Cotton Merchants in New Orleans (1873)

In 1872, I traveled to New Orleans, a former French colony, to meet my other side of the family and to pay a visit to my brothers who all worked as cotton and textile merchants. I saw the houses in Avenue de l’Esplanade built by Creoles, this only made me even more deeply stunned with New Orleans. I even wrote to James Tissot, a friend of mine, how ‘’nothing pleases me more than the black women of all shades, holding little white babies that are oh so white in their arms.....’’ The dark suits of the people in the painting show their power in contrast to the white cotton labored by black people. I wish I had painted more of them.......

‘’the black world.... I love silhouettes so much and these silhouettes walk’’ (Benfey 123).

Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage (1874)

I wanted to get behind the scenes to paint these little monkeys better. Before, I would have to ask some of my friends to slip me into this world but I would become an abonné myself. They are the wealthy male subscription holders of the ballet. They lurk in the foyers, flirted with these little rats who often came from poor families. I often portray them as dark, top-hatted figures. It is only fitting, after all, the establishment was built for a different kind of business behind the curtains. This is where the ballet institutions get their profit.

Ballet made hard demands. This is why I often portray these little ballerinas as the subject of my paintings. They work long hours and immediately attend these classes as early as the age of seven. They would eventually become a breadwinner.

The art of ballet began to attract more poor and middle-class monkeys, perhaps, encouraged by fame and aristocratic marriages of the leading stars of the stage.

I am not too sure if these abonné regard ballet as an art. I would not be surprised if they were only there to oggle at their bare legs.

Although with their advances, probably these creatures’ way of trying to climb up the social ladder as they often do, I have remained chaste. I never want to be included in these little monkeys’ plights....

Women invented the word ‘’suffering.’’

I wrote to a friend that “I am meditating on the state of celibacy, and a good three quarters of what I tell myself is sad.” I would expound on this statements subject later on.

I developed a fascination with the unexpected views of photography and Japanese prints as well. My figures will sometimes be sharply-cropped and placed of center. This Japonisme and the woodblock prints became widespread among the other artists in Europe as well. This is due to the Japanese ports opening to trade with the West in 1853. Aside from goods, the art was also imported.

                                              Works Cited:

Benfey, C. (1999, January 01). Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable. Retrieved August 09, 2020, from https://books.google.com/books?id=AnfViba-xAQC

Degas, Edgar. The Orchestra at the Opera. 1869. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

Degas, Edgar. Orchestra Musicians. 1872. Städel Museum, Germany.

Degas, Edgar. A Cotton Office in New Orleans. 1873. Musee des Beaux-Arts de Pau, France.

Degas, Edgar. Cotton Merchants in New Orleans. 1873. Fogg Museum (Harvard Art Museums), Cambridge, United States.

Degas, Edgar. Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage. 1874. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Picturing France: 1830-1900. (n.d.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Retrieved August 08, 2020, from https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/Education/learning-resources/teaching-packets/pdfs/picturing_france.pdf

Stadelman, Felicia. ‘’Through the Eyes of the Artist: Edgar Degas’’ YouTube, uploaded by Hudson Library & Historical Society, 23 March 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsNujhevtrg&t=3040s

Trachtman, P. (2003, April 01). Degas and His Dancers. Retrieved August 09, 2020, from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/degas-and-his-dancers-79455990/

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Exposition Collective | #Paysages https://www.artlimited.net/agenda/exposition-collective-paysages-pau-musee-des-beaux-arts/fr/7584135

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Exposition Collective | #Paysages https://www.artlimited.net/agenda/exposition-collective-paysages-pau-musee-des-beaux-arts/fr/7584135

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Exposition Collective | #Paysages https://www.artlimited.net/agenda/exposition-collective-paysages-pau-musee-des-beaux-arts/fr/7584135

[landschaftsmalerei]

Die Windmuehle von Argenteuil, um 1830 von Georges Michel Öl auf Leinwand Musee des Beaux-Arts, Pau, France

#Georges Michel #landschaft #landschaftsmalerei #kunst #gemälde #meisterwerk #kunstdruck #museum #galerie #kunstwerk #alte meister

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2 of 3 images: “A Cotton Office in New Orleans” by Edgar Degas. This illustrates the March 25, 2021 Letters Read podcast with readings from the artist’s letters surrounding his brief stay with maternal relatives in the Crescent City during Reconstruction. The painting depicts most of the male members of that side of his family and is in the collection of Musee des Beaux-Arts de Pau, Pau, France. The podcast is hosted by @pitothouse and co-promoted with #alliance-francaise-of-new-orleans Listen to it here: https://anchor.fm/letters-read/episodes/LETTERS-READ-The-Letters-of-Edgar-Degas-ete74f/a-a51rfb2 #edgardegas #degas #impressionist #neworleans https://www.instagram.com/p/CM2ejZvsJ-j/?igshid=f3b4hw9c3vv2

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