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AT-00006127Beach at Low Tide (Mouth of the River)
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right, in graphite: “Degas 69”
Provenance
Given by the artist to Dr. Camus, Paris, 1869 [Lemoisne 1946 notes that the drawing “was given by Degas to Dr. C.,” presumably Dr. Camus]. Lefevre Galleries (Alex. Reid & Lefevre), Glasgow and London, by June 1924 [London 1924]. David William Trail Cargill (1872–1939), Stanmore, Lanark, Scotland, probably by 1928 [London 1928]; by descent to the Cargill Trust, 1939; consigned for sale to Bignou Gallery, New York, July 24, 1940 [email from Emily Down, Tate, May 2, 2013, in curatorial file]. Joseph Martin, Jr. (1915–2000), San Francisco. Sold, Christie’s, New York, November 19, 1998, lot 211, to a private collector. Sold by Ben Elwes Elwes Fine Art, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
London, Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd. (The Lefevre Galleries), Important Pictures by Nineteenth Century French Masters, May–June 1924, cat. 6, as Embouchure de Riviere (price £850 [catalogue was revised June 23, 1924]. London, Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd. (The Lefevre Galleries), Exhibition of Works by Degas, June 1928, p. 14, cat. 16; shown also in Glasgow in May 1928. New York, Bignou Gallery, An Exhibition of English and French Landscapes by 19th Century French Painters, January 1941, no. 7. Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Degas Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, March 1958, hors cat. Palo Alto, Stanford University Gallery, on extended loan. Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, on extended loan. San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museum, on extended loan. Art Institute of Chicago, "Master Drawings Unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions," August 27, 2016–January 29, 2017, no cat.
Publications
P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre (Paris, 1946), II:106–107, no. 200 (ill.). Jacques Lassaigne and Fiorella Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas (Milan, 1974), p. 100, no. 315 (ill.). Richard Kendall, Degas Landscapes, exh. cat. (New Haven, 1993), p. 282, note 11.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Edgar Degas / French, 1834–1917
- Date
- 1869
- Medium
- Pastel on light brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 23.2 × 30.7 cm (9 3/16 × 12 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pastel
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Acquisition Fund
- Accession no.
- 2013.164
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