This a drawing of a rose garden. There is a rectangular border around the drawing. Inside the border there is a view of a rose garden from an above looking down perspective. The top part of the drawing has long hedges across the composition. Below that are smaller hedges spaced apart from eachother. In the middle of the drawing is a smaller square and then borderd within that spare of hedges. Light is coming from the upper rightside of the drawing.

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Object Timeline

1907	Work on this object began.
1917	Work on this object ended.
1991	We acquired this object.
2013	We photographed this object.
2015	We photographed this object.
2021	We exhibited this object.
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Drawing, Vue d'une Roseraie (View of a Rose Garden)

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

A bird's-eye view of a formal garden, in dark ink on yellowed paper. Above the design reads 'Berseaux couvers de charmier.' A high rectangular wall of trimmed hedges encloses an interior hedge. For the shape of the inner hedge, imagine an X, then trace around it, curving the line at the intersection and ends of the X. The hedges are pierced with arched tunnels to allow two paths, one horizontal and one vertical, to meet in a fountain court in the center of the garden. The fountain is encircled with eight arched arbors sheltering benches; curving beds of plants and potted topiaries lead out to smaller fountains that sit inside the ends of the X. Below the design, at left, 'D. Marot fec:'. At right, 'avec Privilegie. 11'. At the top of the page is a detail of another garden design with curving plant beds and potted topiaries. The plants are depicted with delicate detail, and squiggling lines suggest the texture of the hedges.

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

Sidewall (France)
machine-printed paper.
Gift of Mrs. Cornelius Sullivan.
1930-21-1-j

Its dimensions are

30.6 × 41.5 cm (12 1/16 × 16 5/16 in.) Mat: 40.6 × 55.9 cm (16 × 22 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Vue d'une Roseraie (View of a Rose Garden); Designed by André Vera (French, active Paris, 1881–1971), Paul Vera (French, active Paris, 1882–1957); France; brush and brown ink, brown wash, white gouache, graphite on tracing paper; 30.6 × 41.5 cm (12 1/16 × 16 5/16 in.) Mat: 40.6 × 55.9 cm (16 × 22 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1991-58-2

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Modernist French Garden: Design by the Vera Brothers.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Dw2e/
Accession Number 1991-58-2
Object ID 18636631