The image shows a person standing in a slightly leaning forward position with their head lowered, looking downwards. They have facial features that are somewhat shadowed, with a mustache visible. The person wears a cloth wrapping or turban around their head with long draping ends falling down their back. They are dressed in traditional clothing, which includes a loose, long-sleeved top and baggy trousers that taper at the ankles with wrappings over what appear to be boots or shoes. The background is plain and unadorned.

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Zouave

Winslow Homer (American, 1836 - 1910)

1864

Medium: black and white chalk on olive-green wove paper
Classification: Drawing
Dimensions: sheet: 40.3 × 19.1 cm (15 7/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
Culture: American
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line: John Davis Hatch Collection, Avalon 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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