# Relais, Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris (recto); Scene from the Life of Odysseus (verso)

- By: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783-1853)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Regenstein Endowment Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/214356)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/2d898aa4-9be8-945f-0469-c90b8fd1ff98/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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