Carlos Schwabe (1866-1926), Elegy (after Albert Samain) , 1905, charcoal, red chalk and gouache on paper, signed and dated, 21.5x11 cm (on view) Certificate by Dr Jumeau-Lafond, Paris, 4 November 2025 Provenance: Collection of Château de Gingins (since at least the 1980s), then remained in the family to this day We would like to thank Dr Jumeau-Lafond for his help in drafting this notice. Carlos Schwabe (1866-1926) - "Elegy (after Albert Samain)". This work is a probable drawing (ultimately unused) for the illustration of Albert Samain's Au Jardin de l'infante, published in 1908 by Livre contemporain. The rather free form of the signature is characteristic of certain early works, not sold by the artist but given to friends and family, and the wording of the name (without the final <, e >) was adopted by the artist from around 1905/1907. Schwabe's work for the bibliophile society Le Livre contemporain began in 1904 and ended in 1908, the date of publication. The image evokes night falling over the city "The city, where little by little all rumour dies away, Deserted, recedes into a vague distance. The woman embodies both "This flight of time, it seems, between our fingers" and the "Pity that thus lays its finger on us, And all that the earth has of sighs that rise, It seems that to my intoxicated heart, tell it. Your eyes raised to heaven so sad and so sweet."