Degas is not too big to cancel

But museum leaders, who consider Jews white and powerful, are unlikely to censor the depraved anti-Semite.

Perhaps at the same time he painted bespeckled banker and collector Ernest May in “Portraits at the Stock Exchange” (c. 1878-9), Edgar Degas wrote artist Félix Bracquemond, informing that May was getting married and would purchase a townhouse in which to hang his collection. “He’s a Jew,” Degas added.

Neither Paris’ Musée d’Orsay, which owns the canvas, …