Degas made the front page of the weekend Wall Street Journal with his 1873 painting The Cotton Exchange in New Orleans; the price of cotton is spiking due to an anxious market, with share numbers rising to amounts last seen around the Civil War era. Or around the time that Degas packed his trunk and set sail to visit family living in New Orleans, making him the only French Impressionist (of the original Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, et al group) to ever go to the United States.
