Traveled Wonderfully Mapped at the Salon du Dessin in Paris

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William Michaud (1829-1902), Palmes de guarana dans la jungle brésilienne (Guarana Palm Trees in the Brazilian Jungle), watercolor, gouache and Arabic gum, 26 x 20 cm/10.23 x 7.87 in. © DIDIER AARON & CIE

Turning their gazes to the other and elsewhere, artists have brought back from their travels wonderful drawings from their journeys. A new "Grand Tour" at the Palais Brongniart… William Michaud (1829-1902), Palmes de guarana dans la jungle brésilienne (Guarana Palm Trees in the Brazilian Jungle), watercolor, gouache and Arabic gum, 26 x 20 cm/10.23 x 7.87 in.© DIDIER AARON & CIE Most artists are inherently inspired by travel, which is precisely the theme of the 32nd Rencontres internationales du Salon du dessin headed by Marco Simone Bolzoni, curator of the Debra and Leon Black Collection of Old Master and 19th-Century Drawings in New York.

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