Relais, Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris (recto); Scene from the Life of Odysseus (verso)
- 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
- Dimensions
- 22.2 × 29.7 cm (8 3/4 × 11 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
pen and ink drawingsprints and drawingpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
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.
