Front view of colonial 1800's Musson-Bell House, Italianate villa built in 1853 by Michel Musson, Garden District, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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Front view of Musson-Bell House, Italianate villa built in 1853 by Michel Musson, Garden District, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA The Musson-Bell House is an Italianate villa built in 1853 for Michel Musson, a successful and prominent Creole cotton merchant, one of the few Creoles living in the Garden District before the Civil War. He was the uncle of French artist Edgar Degas, who became one of the world’s most famous painters and a founder of the Impressionist movement. Degas briefly lived with Musson in another home on Esplanade Avenue during a visit to New Orleans.

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Size: 4000px × 6000px
Location: Musson-Bell House, Third Street, New Orleans, LA
Photo credit: © Rubens Alarcon / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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