I’m the author of The Cassatt Sisters: A Novel of Love and Art (October 2025). Escape into Art is a place you’ll find paintings and miscellanea about American Impressionist Mary Cassatt and her circle of artist friends, along with delicious bites from Paris during La Belle Époque, the Beautiful Age.

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Edgar Degas, one of the main characters of my historical novel, changed his name in his thirties from the original Hilaire-Germain-Edgar de Gas for...