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Drawing, Study for La Roseraie sur Le Gazon (A Rose Bush on the Grass)

This is a Drawing. It was designed by André Vera and Paul Vera and drafted by Paul Vera. It is dated ca. 1919 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is brush and gouache, red watercolor, black ink, graphite on tracing paper, laid down. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund.

Its dimensions are

7 × 6.3 cm (2 3/4 × 2 1/2 in.) Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Study for La Roseraie sur Le Gazon (A Rose Bush on the Grass); Designed by André Vera (French, active Paris, 1881–1971), Paul Vera (French, active Paris, 1882–1957); France; brush and gouache, red watercolor, black ink, graphite on tracing paper, laid down; 7 × 6.3 cm (2 3/4 × 2 1/2 in.) Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1991-58-13

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Modernist French Garden: Design by the Vera Brothers.

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