Leave, "Partir" in french.. This painting representing Lisbon is a hymn to the start, definitive, sometimes, provisional, often. A hymn to discovery, travel, encounters...Leaving for fresh air, even "far from the region of the heart" (J.Clerc). Let's go, discover, exchange. Lisbon lends itself perfectly to this theme, the departure of so many discoverers. Paradoxically, having become very touristy, we also go there. It has become a place of arrival...