Beach at Low Tide (Mouth of the River)
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1869 · Pastel on light brown wove paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Beach at Low Tide (Mouth of the River) is a public-domain drawing by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, dated 1869. Pastel on light brown wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Beach at Low Tide (Mouth of the River)” (1869) is cropped the way Degas liked: dancers, bathers, or a room seen as if glanced at, not arranged for a formal portrait.
About the artist
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French artist of dancers, bathers, races, and ordinary rooms. He drew constantly and often cropped a scene as if it had been glanced at, rather than posed for a formal portrait.
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