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A Cotton Office in New Orleans by Edgar Degas, 1873
He'd gone over to visit his mother's family in New Orleans, who were in the cotton trade, and painted them at work — the men in here are supposedly relatives and their business partners. The plan, they say, was to sell it to a mill owner in England. That fell through, and it ended up being the first of his paintings a museum ever bought.