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Drawing, Design for a Garden with Geometric Parterres
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 watercolor, white gouache, black crayon 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.
- Print, Design for a Garden Parterre of Cut Grass and Colored Gravel, from...
- etching on cream laid paper.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 1988-4-17
- Print, Title Page, from Nouveaux Livre de Parterres (New Book of Garden Beds)
- etching and engraving on white laid paper.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 1988-4-19
Its dimensions are
18 × 31.7 cm (7 1/16 × 12 1/2 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in black crayon, upper center: décor de long / treillage
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Garden with Geometric Parterres; Designed by André Vera (French, active Paris, 1881–1971), Paul Vera (French, active Paris, 1882–1957); France; brush and watercolor, white gouache, black crayon on cream tracing paper; 18 × 31.7 cm (7 1/16 × 12 1/2 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1991-58-24
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Modernist French Garden: Design by the Vera Brothers.
