RENÉ LALIQUE (1860-1945) The Swans, circa 1897-1898 Preparatory drawing for a pendant. Watercolor and India ink on BFK de Rives paper. Three corners missing. Marked MA upper right, MA 100 lower left and 1000 lower center. 28x22cm Provenance: Artist's family. Exhibition and related work: Salon de la Société des Artistes Français - Paris, 1898. Our drawing corresponds to the pendant presented at this event. Bibliography: - Art et Décoration - June 1898. Our drawing corresponding to the pendant reproduced on page 23, in an article entitled Les Bijoux aux Salon de 1898 by Henri Vever. - Rainer Rücklin - Das Schmuckbuch - Band II - Verlag E. A. Seemann, Leipzig, 1901. Our drawing corresponds to the pendant reproduced on plate 165. - Hermann Barth - Das Geschmeide Schmuck und Edelsteinkunde - Erster Band: Die Geschichte des Schmucks - Verlagsbuchhandlung Alfred Schall, Berlin, 1903. Our drawing corresponds to the pendant reproduced on plate XV. - Henri Vever - La bijouterie française au XIXe siècle (1800-1900) - H. Floury Libraire-Éditeur, Paris, 1908. Our drawing corresponds to the pendant reproduced on page 708. - Sigrid Barten - René Lalique, Schmuck und Objets d'art, 1890-1910 - Monographie und Werkkatalog - Prestel Verlag, Munich, 1977. Our drawing corresponds to the pendant referenced under catalog no. 570 and reproduced on page 298. - Alastair Duncan - The Paris Salons 1895-1914- Jewellery II: the designers L-Z- Édition Antique Collectors' Club, 1998. Our drawing corresponds to the pendant reproduced on page 30.