Costume Study for Osmin in the "Abduction from the Seraglio" by W.A. Mozart

Johann Georg Christoph Fries German

Former Attribution Angelo Quaglio German

ca. 1830–50

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Title: Costume Study for Osmin in the "Abduction from the Seraglio" by W.A. Mozart
Artist: Johann Georg Christoph Fries (German, Nuremberg 1788–1857 Regensburg)
Former Attribution: Angelo Quaglio (German, Munich 1829–1890 Munich)
Date: ca. 1830–50
Medium: Watercolor, over graphite, gum arabic
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 8 1/16 in. (28.3 × 20.5 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013
Object Number: 2013.219.5
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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