Drawing, Design for a Bronze Mounted Vase

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Drawing, Design for a Bronze Mounted Vase

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Emile Gallé. It is dated ca. 1890 and we acquired it in 1985. Its medium is graphite on wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from McNiel Fund.

An illustrated title page for 'Les Fleurs Animées', written in fanciful flower and leaf forms. 'Les Fleurs' grows out in pale multicolor flower-forms from a slender, arched stem, filling the upper third of the page. 'Animées' is written with a ribbonlike, yellow-orange and pink vine held up by a woman standing below the floral lettering. She wears a pale green leaf dress with white and pale pink flower ornaments. One leg is extended behind her; her other tiptoe foot stands on a broad, pale green leaf inscribed with the names of the contributors to the book, written in an assortment of fanciful lettering: 'Dessins par J.I. Grandville Graves sur acier par C. Geoffroi Introductions par Alph. Karr. Texte par Taxile Delord. Botanique et horticulture des dames par le Cte. Fœlix'. A pale blue riddon tied to the base of the stem at left gives more information: 'G. de Gonet Edit. Rue des Beaux Arts'. Two brown beetles, one wearing a pink flower as a cap, climb up the stem of the flower. A multicolor butterfly and insect hover over the flower letters. The delicate lines are hatched and crosshatched to create shading; a dense crosshatched area behind this scene creates depth.

Les Fleurs Animees, Vol. 1
H x W (book open): 27 × 36 cm (10 5/8 × 14 3/16 in.).
Smithsonian Libraries, NC248 .G7F6 1847.
139.2018.12

Its dimensions are

60.3 x 44.8 x 2.5 cm (23 3/4 x 17 5/8 x 1 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamp: ATELIER EMILE GALLE/SOTHEBY MONACO/24.10.1982

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Bronze Mounted Vase; Designed by Emile Gallé (French, 1846–1904); France; graphite on wove paper; 60.3 x 44.8 x 2.5 cm (23 3/4 x 17 5/8 x 1 in.); Museum purchase from McNiel Fund; 1985-61-2

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Eodx/
Accession Number 1985-61-2
Object ID 18805487