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Drawing, L'If Noir dans le Jardin d'Amour (Black Yew Tree in Garden of Love)

This is a Drawing. It was designed by André Vera and Paul Vera and drafted by Eugène Verdeau and André Vera. It is dated ca. 1914 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is pen and black ink, graphite on cream wove paper. 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

18.8 × 24.7 cm (7 3/8 × 9 3/4 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, L'If Noir dans le Jardin d'Amour (Black Yew Tree in Garden of Love); Designed by André Vera (French, active Paris, 1881–1971), Paul Vera (French, active Paris, 1882–1957); Drafted by Eugène Verdeau (French); France; pen and black ink, graphite on cream wove paper; 18.8 × 24.7 cm (7 3/8 × 9 3/4 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1991-58-16

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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