Beach at Low Tide (Mouth of the River)
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
1869
- Medium
- Pastel on light brown wove paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 23.2 × 30.7 cm (9 3/16 × 12 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Acquisition Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Edgar Degas visited the coast of Normandy in the autumn of 1869 and was inspired to create over 40 small-scale landscape pastels. This particular sheet is one of the very best of this group: clearly articulated and unusual in being signed and dated, it is the only seascape that Degas relinquished during his lifetime.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
