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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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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.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Moorish Soldier before a Sunlit Wall

Giuseppe Signorini

Date
1878
Medium
watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 53.3 × 3.3 cm (21 × 1 5/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2014.53.2
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • military
  • fantasy
Provenance

(sale, Christie's Paris, 10 April 2013, no. 145, repro. in color); (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London); purchased 2014 by NGA.

Inscription

lower right in brown ink: Giuseppe Signorini / Roma 1878

NGA object ID 164369. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.