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Drawing, Banc devant un Bassin (Bench before a Pond)

This is a Drawing. It was designed by André Vera and Paul Vera and drafted by Paul Vera and André Vera. It is dated ca. 1912 and we acquired it in 1991. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and black ink, brown wash, graphite on white 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

14.5 × 26.5 cm (5 11/16 × 10 7/16 in.) Image: 12 × 23.7 cm (4 3/4 × 9 5/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.)

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Drawing, Banc devant un Bassin (Bench before a Pond); Designed by André Vera (French, active Paris, 1881–1971), Paul Vera (French, active Paris, 1882–1957); France; pen and black ink, brush and black ink, brown wash, graphite on white tracing paper; 14.5 × 26.5 cm (5 11/16 × 10 7/16 in.) Image: 12 × 23.7 cm (4 3/4 × 9 5/16 in.) Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1991-58-7

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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