His first work accepted by the Salon was his Scene of War in the Middle Ages.  
His first work accepted by the Salon was his Scene of War in the Middle Ages.  Thereafter he switched to mainly contemporary subjects.  He often mocked Impressionists for their outdoor paintings, and was very unhappy when the term was also applied to him. His only work bought by a museum during his life depicts the buying and selling of a certain crop prominent in the American city he stayed in following the Franco-Prussian War.  The New Orleans Cotton Exchange was painted by, for 10 points, this Frenchman, famous for his portraits and paintings of ballerinas.
His first work accepted by the Salon was his Scene of War in the Middle Ages.  
Edgar {Degas}