SALON DU DESSIN
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

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
Free access for Salon du dessin visitors, subject to availability.
Reservation recommended

2024 / 2025

XVIIth Salon du dessin International Symposium

"Travel drawings"

 

Under the direction of Marco Simone Bolzoni,
curator of Old Master and 19th century drawings
from the Debra and Leon Black collection, New York.

Traveling Artists: Forms and Functions of Travel Drawing

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, pierre rouge, pierre noir, 271 x 395 mm; Vienna, Albertina, inv. 13329r.

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.

Albrecht Dürer, Costume d'hiver de trois dames de Livonie, plume, encre brune, aquarelle, 183 x 194 mm; Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. 21 DRr.

"Travel drawings" are 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 focused 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, British Museum, inv. Pp,1.19.

Gentile Bellini, Un janissaire turc, plume, encre noire, 215 x 172 mm; Londres, Birtish Museum, inv. Pp,1.19.

Day 1

Wednesday 20 March 2024
from 2.30 pm to 6 pm

Day 2

Thursday 21st March 2024
from 2.30pm to 6pm

Marco Simone Bolzoni

Curator of Old Master and 19th century drawings from the Debra and Leon Black collection, New York

Introduction

 

Lorenza Melli

Visiting scholar, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence

Les dessins de voyage de Pisanello et son atelier

 

Catherine Whistler

Research Keeper, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford

Travel, drawing and the imagination in 16th-century Italy: the artist, the amateur and the armchair traveller

 

Dr Christof Metzger

Curator German, Austrian and Swiss Art until 1760

Next Stop Vienna: With Dürer on the Road to Venice

 

Francesca Mattei

Maîtresse de conférence, Università degli Studi RomeTre, Rome

Between Education and Profession. Architectural Travels, Architectural Drawings

 

Austėja Mackelaitė

Curator of Drawings, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Stepping Out: Depictions of Netherlandish Artists Outside the Studio, 1530-1600

Cécile Tainturier

Conservatrice, Fondation Custodia / Collection Frits Lugt, Paris

À l’Est, du nouveau. Dessins des peintres néerlandais en voyage dans les contrées germaniques au XVIIe siècle

 

Marco Mansi

PhD Candidate – Prints and Drawings Assistant, The Courtauld

Contours of Influence: Giovanni Battista Naldini’s Views of Rome

 

Baptiste Roelly

Conservateur du patrimoine au musée Condé, château de Chantilly

Dessiner en va-et-vient. De la ‘Campagna Romana’ à l’atelier de Claude Lorrain

 

 

Luca Baroni

Director – Networks of Museums of the Northern Marche Region

A Star that Bewitches People: The Georgian Drawings of Father Cristoforo Castelli (1632-1654)

 

Dr Alessia Frassani

Chercheuse indépendante

Viaggi reali e viaggi immaginari tra l’Europa e la Mesoamerica nel XVI secolo

 

Alice Laforêt

Conservatrice des bibliothèques, responsable des collections patrimoniales, Bibliothèque du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle

Du terrain au vélin. La diffusion des dessins d’expéditions de Charles Plumier et Claude Aubriet

2023

The art of paper gardens: to know, to imagine, to implement

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

Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), De Historia Stirpium, Lyon, 1551, ill p. 897, conservé dans la bibliothèque universitaire de Glasgow

Wednesday March 22nd

2.30 PM - 6.00 PM

Thursday March 23rd

2.30 PM - 6.00 PM

Marc Jeanson

Botaniste, directeur du Jardin Majorelle à Marrakech

Plantes aux traits : les jardins comme outils de description botanique

 

Nathalie de Harlez de Deulin

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

 

José Tito Rojo

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)

 

Emmanuel Parisot

Paysagiste et historien des jardins

De quelques jardins comtois de la fin du XVIIIe siècle : entre découvertes et représentations symboliques

 

José de Los Llanos

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

 

Philippe Mignon

Illustrateur

Des palais du rêve aux jardins de papier 

Iris Lauterbach

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

 

Luigi Latini

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

 

Pierre Arizzoli

Directeur général honoraire du château de Versailles

Le parc de Groussay , quelques remarques à propos d'une récente publication

 

Mirabelle Croizier

Architecte du patrimoine, enseignante Ensa-Paris-Belleville

Le dessin de jardin et de paysage comme outil de projets