Vaudeville ☕️ Salon du Dessin ✍️ Palais Royal 🌸

 

Moules, master drawings and magnolias.

I met JULIA for lunch at le Vaudeville. 29, rue Vivienne, 75002

Have you been?

Can you get more classic French 🇫🇷 Brasserie than this?

I think I ate both our desserts ! Île Flottante + soupe de mangue 🥭 with mango sorbet.

Then we crossed the street for opening day of SALON DU DESSIN at Palais Brongniart.

It’s a 5-day affair. 

Many of the dealers were eating at Le Vaudeville. 

We heard the waiters saying,

”À demain.” (See you tomorrow)

Photo c/o Salon du Dessin

400 dealers showing over 1,000 works 

Both contemporary 

And ancient. 

Remember those 18th century dresses last week.

I fell hard for these small Bonnard pencil ✏️ doodles 

In a ring-bound notebook. Pets à table…

We both flipped for this tiny, exquisite 3” brown ink drawing, impossible to see without taking a photo of it.

Jean Valor Le Jeune (1616 - 1675) Flandres

(8,000 EUR)

An architectural rendering

That reminded me of caryatids I’d seen on Rue de 4 Septembre walking to the restaurant. 

Julia says I should do a Paris Letter of Caryatids. 

Oui 👍 or non 👎 ?