News from partner museums
of the Salon du Dessin

Musée Cognacq-Jay
From 25 March
to 20 September 2026

In collaboration with the Palais Galliera, the Cognacq-Jay Museum explores the diversity of representations of women in the eighteenth century, by comparing textiles pieces and pictorial works…

Musée Gustave Moreau
From 24 March
to 4 May 2026

The Musée Gustave Moreau presents the restoration of a previously unseen drawing by Gustave Moreau for The Siren and the Poet, accompanied by preparatory works and the completed tapestry.

L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts
from 6 November, 2025
to 29 March, 2026

L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts, in partnership with France’s Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN), presents a retrospective dedicated to the collection of Roger Caillois. It brings together her iconic writings and nearly two hundred minerals preserved at the MNHN.

BnF, François Mitterrand site
from 24 March
to 19 July, 2026

Combining masterpieces from the BnF and international loans, this exhibition invites visitors on a journey between reality and fiction, exploring the links between cartography and the imagination.

Musée des Arts Décoratifs
from 18 March
to 28 June, 2026

Featuring around one hundred works—including ancient and contemporary rubbings, drawings, and technical tools—the exhibition showcases the art of stone rubbing through a unique selection of the museum’s Chinese and French collections.

Musée Montmartre
from 20 March
to 13 September, 2026.

For the first time in France, a retrospective exhibition dedicated to Otto and Adya van Rees, major but still little-known figures of the European avant-garde of the 20th century.

Petit Palais
from 18 March
to 19 July, 2026

This exhibition explores artist portraits and self-portraits, from nineteenth-century works to creations by contemporary women artists.

Musée d’Orsay
from 17 March
to 5 July, 2026

This first-ever exhibition devoted entirely to Renoir’s works on paper highlights the artist’s drawings, pastels and watercolours, revealing their influence on his work and creative process from the 19th to the 20th century.

Académie des beaux-arts
From 12 March
to 3 May, 2026

An exhibition presenting the works of the winners and finalists of the 2026 Pierre David-Weill Drawing Prize, in the Academy’s new exhibition space: the Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts located in the Galerie Vivienne.

Musée de Picardie
from 27 June
to 27 September 2026

This summer, the Musée de Picardie unveils an exceptional event: an exhibition of more than 170 major French drawings, all drawn from private collections.

Musée Condé – Château de Chantilly
from 7 March
to 14 June 2026

Shown in full for the first time, this exhibition reveals an outstanding group of 17th-century Italian drawings, featuring more than fifty works, many from the Musée Condé’s own collection.

Rijksmuseum
from 9 October 2026
to 17 January 2027

The Rijksmuseum presents ‘Willem de Kooning at work’, a landmark exhibition that places the artist’s creative process at its core. Featuring around 120 works, it offers a comprehensive overview of his drawings, alongside selected paintings and sculptures.

Musée Jean-Jacques Henner
from 18 February
to 22 June, 2026

The exhibition ‘Salomé. Henner and Moreau face the myth’ explores Jean-Jacques Henner and Gustave Moreau’s fascination with the biblical figure of Salomé through drawings, sketches and paintings.

Musée d’Orsay
from 10 February
to 10 May 2026

This wall display presents a selection of Scandinavian and Dutch drawings from the Musée d’Orsay, illustrating the artistic richness of Northern Europe and the diversity of 19th-century Northern European drawing.

Musée d’Orsay
from January 27
to May 17, 2026

Organised around the recent acquisition of a drawing by Josef Hoffmann, this exhibition focuses on the Musée d’Orsay’s collections devoted to drawings from the Vienna Secession.

INHA
from 12 December 2025
to 14 June 2026

Exceptional exhibition of 178 19th- and 20th-century prints, from Manet to Ellsworth Kelly, showcasing the richness of the Jacques Doucet collection and the creativity of printmaking artists.

Musée de l’Armée – Invalides
from 8 November 2025
to 17 May, 2026

The Musé de l’Armée welcomes visual artist Nicolas Daubanes, who is taking over the permanent collection rooms dedicated to the Third Republic, from the Commune to the Second World War, with around thirty of his works.

Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes
from 29 November 2025
to 29 March 2026

This exhibition, which features numerous drawings, highlights a forgotten chapter in the artistic history of Rennes in the 19th century: the beginnings of the museum and the municipal school of fine arts.