La réception du verre américain en France

• Autores: Jean-François Luneau
• Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 187, 2015, págs. 59-68
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • The reception of American glass in France.

    The 1889 Exposition Universelle provided the occasion for the French public to disvocer relief glass used in stained glass, especially what is called "verres américains" (American glass), which appeared in the United States around 1880. Created by the glassmakers in Brooklyn for the decorators, John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany, it was rapidly used in France by the painter glassmakers Oudinot, Bégule, Gaudin and Galland. Despite this success, they experienced a mixed reception. While the economic obstacles to their diffusion were rapidly eliminated, notably by the glassmaker, Appert, who placed similar products on the market, made in France, thus unencumbred by duty taxes, their use nevertheless inspired numerous esthetic resistances: their exclusive use would have led the painter glassmakers towards an ornamental abstraction, a path that they did not wish to follow.