Design for Two Pendants, by René Lalique, c. 1900 - c. 1904
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Design for Two Pendants

Also titled Ontwerp voor twee hangers

René Lalique (Ay, 1860–1945)

c. 1900 - c. 1904

Medium
paper, ink, chalk
Classification
design drawing
Dimensions
height 240 mm x width 216 mm
Museum
Rijksmuseum
Credit line
Purchased with the support of the Otto van Noppen Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds
Rights
Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

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About this work

In this drawing the artist imagines two pendants. The hydrangeas, enamelled blue, have golden leaves with an enamelled and engraved decoration. They are combined with pale blue stones. Lalique found his principal inspiration in directly observed nature.