# Persische Nachtigallen (Persian Nightingales)

- By: Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879 - 1940)
- Date: 1917
- Medium: gouache, watercolor, and pen and black ink over graphite on laid paper, mounted on cardboard; the sheet bordered at the top with yellow paper strip mounted to support
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: overall: 22.8 x 18.1 cm (9 x 7 1/8 in.)
- Culture: Swiss
- Credit line: Gift of Catherine Gamble Curran and Family, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.71551.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/nga/e3c67705-58e9-494e-a57e-d1ad8640abb1/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)