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Drawing, Four Studies of Garden Parterres, 1912–19
This is a Drawing. It was designed by André Vera and Paul Vera. It is dated 1912–19 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is brush and watercolor, black chalk, graphite on off-white laid 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
Its dimensions are
23.6 × 31.6 cm (9 5/16 × 12 7/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.)
It is inscribed
In graphite, center and right center: number sequence counted off in 10s; inscription in French, Ne placer la nouvel parterre/une feuillage tis --[illeg.]/par example
Cite this object as
Drawing, Four Studies of Garden Parterres, 1912–19; Designed by André Vera (French, active Paris, 1881–1971), Paul Vera (French, active Paris, 1882–1957); France; brush and watercolor, black chalk, graphite on off-white laid paper; 23.6 × 31.6 cm (9 5/16 × 12 7/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1991-58-27
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Modernist French Garden: Design by the Vera Brothers.
