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Drawing, View of a Walled Octagonal Garden with Evergreen Trees

This is a Drawing. It was designed by André Vera and Paul Vera and drafted by André Vera and Paul Vera. It is dated 1912–19 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is brush and gouache, ink on cream tracing 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

34.6 × 53.5 cm (13 5/8 × 21 1/16 in.) Mat: 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, View of a Walled Octagonal Garden with Evergreen Trees; Designed by André Vera (French, active Paris, 1881–1971), Paul Vera (French, active Paris, 1882–1957); France; brush and gouache, ink on cream tracing paper; 34.6 × 53.5 cm (13 5/8 × 21 1/16 in.) Mat: 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1991-58-23

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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