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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

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

1812
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
22.2 × 29.7 cm (8.7 × 11.7 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

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.

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