Image Gallery
Figure 1: Grand Palais, Exposition Universelle de 1900, 1900. Photograph. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Figure 2: Le Grand Palais des Beaux Arts, 1900. Photograph. From Volume Annexe du Catalogue Genéral Officiel, Exposition Internationale Universelle, Paris 1900, 20.
Figure 3, 26: Émile Gallé, Africa Bookcase, ca. 1900. Tropical hardwood. From Alastair Duncan and Georges de Bartha, Gallé Furniture (Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club: 2012), 71.
Figure 4, 28: Émile Gallé, Bananier Sellette, 1900. Cashew wood, marquetry in various woods. 105 x 48 x 48 cm. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Figure 5: Victor Prouvé, Portrait of Émile Gallé, 1892. Oil on canvas, 150 x 98 cm. Musée de l’École de Nancy, Nancy.
Figure 6: Victor Prouvé, Portrait d’Émile Gallé à l’établi, n.d. Oil on Panel, 62 x 42 cm. Artnet.
Figure 7: Émile Marx, Portrait of Roger Marx, 1887. Photograph. From Roger Marx: Un Critique aux Côtés de Gallé, Monet, Rodin, Gauguin… (Nancy: Ville de Nancy, 2006), 14.
Figure 8: Émile Gallé, Les Courges (The Squash) Wall Lamp, c. 1902. Transparent glass with overlay in yellow-brown and dark olive, with ripple design, wrought iron, 130 x 220 x 25 cm. From Emile Gallé (New York: Parkstone Press, 2014), 134.
Figure 9: Eiffel Tower and Fountain Coutan, Paris Exposition, 1889. Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Figure 10: Émile Gallé, Raisins Mystérieux, 1892. Glass bottle with metallic inclusions, opalescent blown glass stopper, carved and tinted pear wood base, 40 x 12.5 cm. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Figure 11: Émile Gallé, Le Rhin Table, Detail of Top, 1889. Musée de l’École de Nancy, Nancy.
Figure 12: Émile Gallé, Le Rhin Table, 1889. Carved walnut and turned plum wood, top of ebony inlaid with various other woods, 77 x 220 x 110 cm. Musée de l’École de Nancy, Nancy.
Figure 13: Émile Gallé, Le Rhin Table, Detail of Base, 1889. Musée de l’École de Nancy, Nancy.
Figure 14: Émile Gallé, Le Rhin Table, Detail of Inscription, 1889. Musée de l’École de Nancy, Nancy.
Figure 15: Gif created from “Paris in 1900 – Exposition Universelle [Rare Footage],” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4R72jTb74.
Figure 16: Agence de géographie universelle, Exposition Universele de 1900, 1900. Bibliothèque National de France.
Figure 17: Le Palais d’Électricité et le Château d’Eau, 1900. Photographic Print. Brown University Library.
Figure 18: Plate-Forme Mobile, la Station du Pont des Invalides, Exposition Universelle, 1900. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Figure 19: Art Nouveau style Métropolitain Railway Station Entrance, Paris Exposition Universelle 1900. Photograph. From Paul Greenhalgh, Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions, and World’s Fairs, 1851-1939 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988), 91.
Figure 20: Pavillon Bleu de l’Exposition Universelle de 1900. Photograph. From Roger Marx, La Décoration et les industries de 1900 (Paris: Delgrave, 1901), 27.
Figure 21: Jules Charles Roux, Indo-Chine, 1900. Print. From Jules Charles Roux, Souvenir de l’Exposition Coloniale 1900 (Paris: A Chevojon, 1900), 138.
Figure 22: Excerpt from Catalogue Général Officiel / Exposition Internationale Universelle de 1900, Tome X, 13.
Figure 23: Contemporary photograph of Émile Gallé, Les Ombellules, 1900. From Émile Gallé, ” Les Essais d’Art Moderne Dans la Décoration Intérieure,” Revue des Arts Décoratifs (1900), 289.
Figure 24: Contemporary photograph of Émile Gallé, Orchidées Lorraines, Bureau, 1900. From Émile Gallé, ” Les Essais d’Art Moderne Dans la Décoration Intérieure,” Revue des Arts Décoratifs (1900), 289.
Figure 25: Contemporary photograph of Émile Gallé, Guéridon Sagittaire, 1900. From Émile Gallé, ” Les Essais d’Art Moderne Dans la Décoration Intérieure,” Revue des Arts Décoratifs (1900), 290.
Figure 27: Allen Phillips, Tigerwood Sample, PhillipsForestProducts.com
Figure 29: Émile Gallé, Bananier Sellette [Detail], 1900. Cashew wood, marquetry in various woods. 105 x 48 x 48 cm. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Figure 30: Nisa and Ulli Maier Photography, Fresh banana flower at a market in Kolkata, India. Digital Image. Getty Images, ND.
Figure 31: Jean-François Oeben and Jean Henri Riesener, Bureau du Roi, 1760-69. Bronze, marquetry of a variety of fine woods, Sèvres porcelain. 163 x 85 x 158 cm. Château de Versailles, Versailles.
Figure 32: Émile Gallé, Ipomea (also Commode Morning Glory), 1900. Marquetry of several different woods on a carcass of oak and willow, 87 x 88 x 57 cm. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Figure 33: Émile Gallé, L’Orchidée et L’Insecte mueble d’appui (The Orchid and the Insect Chest of Drawers), 1888-89. Carved Madagascan ebony, false acacia, carved colored woods, chased and patinated bronze, antique Egyptian green marble. From Alastair Duncan and Georges de Bartha, Gallé Furniture (Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 2012), 32.
Figure 34: Émile Gallé, Étagère aux Ombellifères (also Les Ombellules étagère de salon) [Front], 1900-02. Walnut with marquetry panels, 151 x 67.5 x 47.3 cm. Musée des Beaux Arts, Reims.
Figure 35: Émile Gallé, Étagère aux Ombellifères (also Les Ombellules étagère de salon) [Left Side], 1900-02. Walnut with marquetry panels, 151 x 67.5 x 47.3 cm. Musée des Beaux Arts, Reims.
Figure 36: Émile Gallé, Étagère aux Ombellifères (also Les Ombellules étagère de salon) [Right Side], 1900-02. Walnut with marquetry panels, 151 x 67.5 x 47.3 cm. Musée des Beaux Arts, Reims.
Figure 37: Émile Gallé, Guéridon Sagittaire (Sagittarius Pedestal Table, also called Flèche d’eau or Watter Arrow), 1900. Sculpted walnut, marquetry in Ceylon lemon tree, ash, tamo ash, and rosewood. Musée de l’École de Nancy, Nancy.
Figure 38: Anonymous, La Flèche d’eau: table en mosaïque et boi, ca. 1900. Aristotype, 20.6 x 8.5 cm. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Figure 39: Carolyn Fannon, Sagittaria latifolia, 2012. Digital photograph. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, University of Texas, Austin.
Figure 40: Comparison of Sagittaria latifolia leaves. Left: Émile Gallé, Guéridon Sagittaire (Sagittarius Pedestal Table, also called Flèche d’eau or Watter Arrow) [Detail], 1900. Sculpted walnut, marquetry in Ceylon lemon tree, ash, tamo ash, and rosewood. Musée de l’École de Nancy, Nancy. Right: Sally and Andy Wasowski, Sagittaria latifolia [Detail], 1987. Photograph. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, University of Texas, Austin.
Figure 41: Émile Gallé, Guéridon Sagittaire (Sagittarius Pedestal Table, also called Flèche d’eau or Watter Arrow) [Detail of Top], 1900. Sculpted walnut, marquetry in Ceylon lemon tree, ash, tamo ash, and rosewood. Musée de l’École de Nancy, Nancy.
Figure 42: Émile Gallé, Africana Vase, 1900. Blown glass and glass marquetry, engraved, mounted in silver. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
Figure 43: Émile Gallé, The Forest of Guyana, 1900. Musée de l’École de Nancy, Nancy.
Figure 44: Victor Horta, Stairway in Tasselhouse, Brussels, 1892-93. Photograph by Henry Townsend, 2002.
Figure 45: William Morris, Holland Park carpet, late 19th century. Wool. 515.6 x 396.9 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Figure 46: Kirman Carpet, 1600-1700. Cotton warp, silk and cotton wefts, and wool pile. 523 x 330.5 cm. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.