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Émile Gallé Art

French, 1846-1904

“Art for art’s sake” was a belief strongly espoused by the celebrated French designer and glassworker Émile Gallé. Through his ethereal glass vases, other vessels and lamps, which he adorned with botanical and religious motifs, Gallé advanced the Art Nouveau ideology and led the modern renaissance of French glass.

Gallé was the son of successful faience and furniture maker Charles Gallé but studied philosophy and botany before coming to glassmaking later in life. The young Gallé’s expertise in botany, however, would inform his design style and become his signature for generations to come.

After learning the art of glassmaking, Gallé went to work at his father’s factory in Nancy. He initially created clear glass objects but later began to experiment with layering deeply colored glass.

While glassmakers on Murano had applied layers of glass and color on decorative objects before Gallé had, he was ever-venturesome in his northeastern France, taking advantage of defects that materialized during his processes and etching in natural forms like insects such as dragonflies, marine life, the sun, vines, fruits and flowers modeled from local specimens.

Gallé is also credited with reviving cameo glass, a glassware style that originated in Rome. He used cabochons, which were applied raised-glass decorations colored with metallic oxides and made to resemble rich jeweling. Gallé's cameo glass vases and vessels were widely popular at the Paris Exhibition of 1878, cementing his position as a talented designer and pioneer.

During the late 19th century, Gallé led breakthroughs in mass production and employed hundreds of artisans in his workshop.

Botany and nature remained great sources of inspiration for the artist's glassmaking — just as they had for other Art Nouveau designers. From approximately 1890 to 1910, the movement’s talented designers produced furniture, glass and architecture in the form of — or adorned with — gently intertwining trees, flowers and vines. But Gallé had many interests, such as Eastern art and ceramics. The Japanese collection he visited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (then the South Kensington Museum) during the 1870s had made an impression too.

Breaking free from the rigid Victorian traditions, Gallé infused new life and spirit into the art and design of his time through exquisitely crafted glass vessels and pioneering new glassworking techniques.

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Artist: Émile Gallé
Antique Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase Fuschias
By Émile Gallé
Located in Austin, TX
Émile Gallé  (French, 1846 - 1904) Title:                       Art Nouveau Glass Vase Fuschias Medium:                           Cameo Glass Vase Size:         Height               ...
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Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Art

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Art Nouveau French Cameo Glass 'Convolvulus Vase' by Emile Gallé, Nancy - 32 cm
By Émile Gallé
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Emile GALLE Tall Cameo Glass Vase with Convolvulus ornaments Crafted in Nancy (Lorraine) c. 1915 Bearing Galle signature with a star in cameo (the s...
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1910s Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Art

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Art Nouveau French Cameo Glass 'Umbels Vase' by Emile Gallé, Nancy - 40 cm
By Émile Gallé
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Emile GALLE Tall Cameo Glass Vase with Umbels ornaments Crafted in Nancy (Lorraine) c. 1905 Bearing Galle signature in cameo Made of white opalesce...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Art

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Art Nouveau French Cameo Glass 'Umbels Vase' by Emile Gallé, Nancy - 63cm High
By Émile Gallé
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Emile GALLE Tall Cameo Glass Vase with Umbels ornaments Crafted in Nancy (Lorraine) c. 1905 Bearing Galle signature in cameo Made of white opalescen...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Art

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Great price! Wonderfully intricate grape and vine motif. It creates a dominant presence in person. This is a statement piece It's on sale for a limited time only. Incredible v...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Art

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