Vive la France

Not only does the annual Salon du Dessin in Paris feature an extraordinary range of works, including a Parmigianino drawing, but the city hosts numerous other art events in the same week, making a trip across the Channel particularly tempting

Huon Mallalieu

THERE will be a very special extra treat for visitors to this year’s Salon du Dessin—its 33rd staging—at the Palais Brongniart (March 26–31). Each year, a French fine-arts museum is the guest of honour, invited to present a selection from its drawings collection. This time, it is the Beaux-Arts in Reims, a city to which I have never been, so I was completely unaware of its 13 portraits (Fig 1) of notable German Protestants now attributed to the younger Lucas Cranach (1515–86), although, in the past, they have sometimes been given to his father. They are in combinations of chalk, charcoal, tempera and gouache, and were acquired by the city thanks to Antoine Ferrand de Monthelon (1686–1752), the founder of the drawing school there, who bequeathed it more than 3,000…

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