I love Paris in the springtime

PARIS was the world capital of drawing for one week last month. It was frustrating to have only two days, with so much on offer: superb exhibitions, including the Louvre’s drawings owned by Giorgio Vasari, the founder of art history, and ‘True to Nature: Open Air Painting 1780–1870’ at the Fondation Custodia, which demonstrates that oil sketches can be close kin to drawing. At the centre were the Salon du Dessin at the Palais Brongniart and Drawing Now, the contemporary fair in the Carreau