Relais, Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris (recto); Scene from the Life of Odysseus (verso)
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783-1853)
1812
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, with brush and gray and brown washes, over graphite (recto); graphite and pen and black ink (verso) on off-white wove paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 22.2 × 29.7 cm (8 3/4 × 11 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Denmark
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
When the young and ambitious Eckersberg entered Jacques-Louis David’s Parisian studio in 1811, he was encouraged to make studies after nature and therefore carried a sketchbook with him while moving through the city and the surrounding countryside. In a diary entry dated September 15, 1812, he recorded a tour of the Champs-Élysées, rendered here with deft handling of perspective and the witty detail of a young woman adjusting her stocking.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
