# Beach at Low Tide (Mouth of the River)

- By: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Regenstein Acquisition Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/218848)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/813a7de0-60fc-8dfc-6bbd-8d93879e8778/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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