Landscape

Although relatively little is known of the landscapist Charles-François Eustache, his most important teacher was the Swiss painter Alexandre Calame. Aside from the time Eustache spent at Calame’s studio in Geneva, he traveled to England and Scotland, and visited Egypt several times. Throughout his life he sketched outdoors; several oil-on-paper cloud studies by him are known. This drawing depicts a river or canal with poplars in the distance, the whole showing Eustache’s adherence to the principles of pure landscape and truth to nature.