“Drawing is the moment when the idea springs forth.” An idea which can take the form of a foot in the painter of the wise men Benozzo Gozzoli, the portrait of a man barely sketched by the prince of artists Annibale Carracci or that of a naked woman in the Gothic lord Pisanello… The Custodia Foundation, a true temple of drawing in Paris, celebrates the meeting of thought, pen and paper in a ballet of serpentine lines and brown inks. Usually nestled in the bowels of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, some of the most beautiful Italian leaves from the 15th ^th and 16th ^th centuries are revealed today in this dizzying exhibition of preciousness. Between a red study of Correggio, a wash of Parmesan or a white chalk sketch by Barocci, we follow in a procession of masterpieces the clear line drawn by the Holy Trinity of the arts: we see Leonardo de Vinci freezes the meeting of Leda and the swan with black stone, Michelangelo sketches a bust of a man in profile in a profusion of luxuriant details, while Raphael closes the loop with a metal-point study of little Saint John -Kneeling Baptist, a motif that we invariably find in his Madonnas and Child.

CUSTODIA FOUNDATION
From October 12, 2024 to January 12, 2025
121 rue de Lille, 75007 - M° National Assembly (12)
Tue-Sun 12pm-6pm, closed Mon.
Price: €12 - TR: €10 - Free under 18 years