René Lalique's Masterpieces Shine in the Netherlands

René Lalique's Masterpieces Shine in the Netherlands

Woman with Peacock Feathers, a gold-and-enamel brooch by René Lalique, 1902–5. An exhibition in the Netherlands celebrates René Lalique, the French jeweler who closed the door on the Belle Époque and ushered in a livelier, less formal chapter in the history of the craft By Ruth Peltason As movements in jewelry go, the Art Nouveau, dating from around 1895 to 1910, was brief. But what it achieved was seismic, thanks to the protean skills and imagi…