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Drawing, Design for Garden Featuring Octagonal Fountain with Sculpture, Flanked by Hemispherical Trellises
This is a Drawing. It was designed by André Vera and Paul Vera and drafted by André Vera and Paul Vera. It is dated 1912–14 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and white gouache, black crayon, graphite 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
19.8 × 25.5 cm (7 13/16 × 10 1/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for Garden Featuring Octagonal Fountain with Sculpture, Flanked by Hemispherical Trellises; Designed by André Vera (French, active Paris, 1881–1971), Paul Vera (French, active Paris, 1882–1957); France; pen and black ink, brush and white gouache, black crayon, graphite on cream tracing paper; 19.8 × 25.5 cm (7 13/16 × 10 1/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1991-58-30
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Modernist French Garden: Design by the Vera Brothers.