Since 2006, the Salon du dessin organizes every year international meetings around a theme.
"Travel drawings" will be the theme of the study days in 2024 and 2025
Palais Brongniart / Petit auditorium, 1st floor
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Under the direction of Marco Simone Bolzoni,
curator of Old Master and 19th century drawings from the Debra and Leon Black collection, New York.
Until the middle of the last century, traveling, covering long distances from one continent to another, from one country to another, from one region to another, discovering and exploring them, coming into contact with different cultures, equally different traditions, all constituted a rare experience and a unique personal enrichment, but one that was difficult for the vast majority of women and men to access.
Nowadays, on the contrary, in a globalized world, continuously interconnected, where communications encounter no obstacle, moving has become an ordinary activity.
Federico Zuccaro (détail)
Un dessinateur dans un paysage
red stone, black stone
271 x 395 mm
Vienna, Albertina, inv. 13329r.
It is not only the travel itself that has been facilitated thanks to more efficient and cheaper means of transport, it is also the invention and widespread use of new electronic devices that have contributed to recording and recording on the spot each of these moments of discovery through a simple mechanical action. This was not the case in the past - at least until the invention of photography.
Indeed, it was drawing practice that allowed the traveler to entrust this manual technique with the visual memory of his experience.
However, this act required a certain form of optical and intellectual concentration, far from digital instantaneity, and above all, essential knowledge to master the gestures.
Albrecht Dürer
Costume d'hiver de trois dames de Livonie
pen, black ink, watercolor
183 x 194 mm
Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. 21 DRr.
"Travel drawings" will be the theme of the study days that will take place during the Salon du dessin in 2024 and 2025.
The main objective will be to question the forms and functions of this type of drawing, whether they were made by artists, antiquaries (in the old sense of the term), writers, explorers, or scientists who, during their travels, felt the need to graphically record in sketchbooks or on isolated sheets the forms of the visible world surrounding them.
The two study days scheduled for 2024 will focus more particularly on the period from the Renaissance to the seventeenth century, while those planned for 2025 will address the same subject from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Gentile Bellini
Un janissaire turc
pen, black ink
215 x 172 mm
Londres, Birtish Museum, inv. Pp,1.19.
Palais Brongniart / Petit auditorium, 1st floor
The Salon du dessin has been holding annual International Symposia since 2006 and has chosen the art of gardens and nature as its theme for 2022 and 2023.
The symposium was chaired by French Academician Pierre Rosenberg; its scientific director is Monique Mosser.
Free access for visitors to the Salon du dessin, within the limits of available places.
Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), De Historia Stirpium, Lyon, 1551, ill p. 897, conservé dans la bibliothèque universitaire de Glasgow
Botaniste, directeur du Jardin Majorelle à Marrakech
Plantes aux traits : les jardins comme outils de description botanique
Historienne des jardins, coordinatrice de l'Inventaire des parcs et jardins de Wallonie
Une série exceptionnelle de dessins au lavis illustrant ‘L’Ode à mes jardins [d’Annevoie]’ composée par Charles-Alexis de Montpellier en 1802
Botaniste, paysagiste, ancien conservateur du jardin botanique de l'Université de Grenade
Jeux de plans. A propos des représentations du jardin andalou du Carmen de los Mártires à Grenade (1856-1960)
Paysagiste et historien des jardins
De quelques jardins comtois de la fin du XVIIIe siècle : entre découvertes et représentations symboliques
Conservateur en chef, cabinet des arts graphiques et département des maquettes du Musée Carnavalet-Histoire de Paris
Le pavillon chinois de l'hôtel de Montmorency-Luxembourg de Pierre Rousseau (1751-1829). Acquisition et restauration du modèle en papier mâché par le musée Carnavalet
Illustrateur
Des palais du rêve aux jardins de papier
Historienne de l'architecture et des jardins, Institut Central d'Histoire de l'Art, professeur honoraire de l'Université technique de Munich
"Observés avec une grande curiosité": Jardins et artifices hydrauliques de Versailles, Saint-Cloud, Chantilly et Marly dans des dessins conservés à Dresde
Architecte, directeur de la Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche (Trévise), professeur à l'IUAV (Venise)
Le fonds d'archives du paysagiste italien Pietro Porcinai (1910-1986), source essentielle pour la connaissance d'une figure majeure du paysage européen au XXe siècle
Directeur général honoraire du château de Versailles
Le parc de Groussay , quelques remarques à propos d'une récente publication
Architecte du patrimoine, enseignante Ensa-Paris-Belleville
Le dessin de jardin et de paysage comme outil de projets
Dear visitors,
Due to the gravity of the international situation resulting from the spread of COVID-19 and in order to protect the health of all parties concerned, we have decided to cancel the 29th edition of the Salon du dessin.
France officially declared a state of health emergency on 24 March for two months and there are still numerous uncertainties regarding the evolution of the pandemic over the coming months. These factors make it impossible to reprogram the Salon before the summer of 2020 and the Salon du dessin, which usually attracts numerous other events in Paris for a week, will therefore not take place this year.
Louis de Bayser, President of the Salon du dessin said “this is a difficult decision to take with regard to all those who worked hard for this edition, but our priority is to protect the health of all our exhibitors, visitors and partners”.
We send our thoughts to all those affected by this epidemic and hope that this unprecedented health situation will quickly change favorably.
The organizers of the Fair