Amalric Walter and Henri Bergé "À la fontaine" Bookend
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In this pâte-de-verre bookend, a nude woman kneels in a grassy field at the base of a marble column draped in ivy and moss. The composition is clearly conceived as a nude reinterpretation of William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s celebrated 1898 painting À la fontaine, in which two sisters drink from a spring in the French countryside. The painting’s popularity spread rapidly through a photograph issued that same year and sold in multiple formats by Braun & Clément, whose reproductions circulated widely throughout Europe and the United States.
Item #: YP-22103
Artist: Amalric Walter and Henri Bergé
Country: France
Circa: 1920
Dimensions: 8.5" height, 5.25" width, 4" depth.
Materials: Pâte de verre Glass
Signed: 'A Walter, Nancy' and 'A Finot"
Item #: YP-22103
Artist: Amalric Walter and Henri Bergé
Country: France
Circa: 1920
Dimensions: 8.5" height, 5.25" width, 4" depth.
Materials: Pâte de verre Glass
Signed: 'A Walter, Nancy' and 'A Finot"
Amalric Walter worked for the Cristalleries Daum in Nancy, France, from 1904 or 1905, where he stayed until the first World War in 1915. It was during this time when he met designer/modelist, Henri Bergé, with whom he made pâtes de verre objects, always signed "Daum Nancy," without his name nor Bergé's name. They later continued their collaboration after Walter opened his own glass studio in 1919, producing models such at this petite "Crabe" paperweight.
Amalric Walter worked for the Cristalleries Daum in Nancy, France, from 1904 or 1905, where he stayed until the first World War in 1915. It was during this time when he met designer/modelist, Henri Bergé, with whom he made pâtes de verre objects, always signed "Daum Nancy," without his name nor Bergé's name. They later continued their collaboration after Walter opened his own glass studio in 1919, producing models such at this petite "Crabe" paperweight.
