The 2025 edition is over.
See you from 25 to 30 March 2026!

Public lecture
Watermarks & Computational Art History

On Friday 16 May, the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History, in collaboration with Teylers Museum, will organise a public lecture on watermark analysis using digital tools.

Speakers are Prof. Rick Johnson and Dr. Rob Fucci.

The afternoon event will take place from 2:30 pm till 5:00 pm at Teylers Museum, is free of charge and can also be followed online.

New
Les dessins de voyages - Tome 1

The proceedings of the 17^th Rencontres Internationales du Salon du dessin have been published!

This is the first volume of the 2024-2025 meetings on the theme Les dessins de voyage. Les artistes voyageurs: formes et fonctions du dessin de voyage XVI^e-XVII^e siècles.

The texts come from the 2024 meetings, chaired by Pierre Rosenberg of the Académie Française. Scientific director: Marco Simone Bolzoni, curator of Old Master and 19th-century drawings in the Debra and Leon Black Collection, New York.

In French only

A look back at the 2025 Salon du Dessin in pictures

With over 15,000 visitors, hundreds of drawings sold and the presence of almost 500 museum curators, the 33rd Salon du Dessin confirmed its international success.

To bring this year's event to a close, we invite you to take one last look at all the stands of our exhibitors and guests.

The 2025 edition catalogue

The 2025 catalogue is sold out!
However, you can consult it in full on our website:

Alice Maher, winner of the 18^th Drawing Prize of the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation

On Thursday March 27 2025, at the Palais Brongniart, the winner of the 2025 Drawing Prize of the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation was announced.

It is Alice Maher, Irish artist.

The exhibition of nominees for the 18^th Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation Drawing Prize

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims,
guest of honor at the 2025 Salon du dessin

Currently undergoing renovation and expansion work, the museum continues to bring its collections to life, particularly those in its rich prints and drawings department, thanks to the invitation from the Salon du dessin

Among the 46 drawings selected for this event will be featured the incredible series of thirteen portraits by Lucas Cranach the Younger...

Tavolozza Foundation,
once again invited to the Salon du dessin

This year, the Katrin Bellinger Collection - managed by the Tavolozza Foundation - presented a selection of drawings and watercolours exploring the theme of travel, to coincide with the XVIII^th Salon du dessin International Symposium, ‘Traveling Artists: Forms and Functions of Travel Drawing’.