Emile Gallé Collection

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Emile Gallé Collection

1880-1969

https://archivesspace.cmog.org/repositories/3/resources/23

This collection is of mixed provenance and contains an assemblage of correspondence, design drawings, and ephemera created by Emile Gallé, French designer and leader of the Art Nouveau movement, and his workshop.

3.5 linear feet

eng, Latn

fra, Latn

Corning Museum of Glass. Rakow Research Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 11654069

Corning Museum of Glass. Rakow Research Library

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Gallé, Emile, 1846-1904

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65d8wkx (person)

Emile Gallé (1846-1904) was a celebrated French designer and one of the leaders of the Art Nouveau movement. Born in 1846, in the Eastern French town of Nancy, Gallé was the son of a successful faience and furniture manufacturer. He attended the Lycee Impérial in Nancy and in 1862, at the age of sixteen, he began to travel across Europe studying mineralogy, art history and botany. After returning home in 1864, Gallé spent three years studying glassmaking at one of his father’s workshops in Meise...