For 10 points, name this French painter of The Cotton Office in New Orleans.
Two men conversing behind a pillar in a painting by this artist are compared to his portrait of delinquent types, Criminal Physiognomies and to the figures in his Portrait of Friends on Stage in a book about him by Carol Armstrong. Harvard's Fogg Museum houses a painting by this artist in which a businessman looks at some goods to the left behind a wall on which this artist punningly included a picture of a ship. In a painting by this artist, a black-suited man leans up to the ear of this artist's patron Ernest May, who is anti-semitically depicted with sallow skin and a hooked nose. This artist of Portraits at the Stock Exchange painted (*) Michel Musson wearing spectacles in order to examine the substance he's holding in the foreground of one painting. In that painting, this artist's brother Rene leans back and reads The Daily Picayune in front of men crowded around a table covered in a white product. For 10 points, name this French painter of The Cotton Office in New Orleans.
Two men conversing behind a pillar in a painting by this artist are compared to his portrait of delinquent types, Criminal Physiognomies and to the figures in his Portrait of Friends on Stage in a book about him by Carol Armstrong.
Edgar Degas