The image shows a person standing against a wall, wearing a traditional outfit with a vest, long-sleeved garment, robe, sash, footwear, and a headpiece with a plume. The person has a beard and long hair, holding a rifle in their right hand. The background is a simple, lightly shaded wall and floor with subtle watercolor textures.
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A Moorish Soldier before a Sunlit Wall

Giuseppe Signorini (Italian, 1857 - 1932)

1878

Medium
watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
sheet: 53.3 × 3.3 cm (21 × 1 5/16 in.)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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