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Drawing, Stage Design: Variation of the Palace Terrace, Act I, Scene 2, for Don Giovanni, 1957

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Eugene Berman and music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and made for (as the client) Metropolitan Opera. It is dated 1957 and we acquired it in 1958. Its medium is pen and black, red ink, brush and watercolor on paper mounted on cardboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Ogden Codman.

Its dimensions are

15.6 × 12.7 cm (6 1/8 in. × 5 in.)

It is signed

Signed in pen and black ink, lower right: E.B. / 1957 Don Giovanni

Cite this object as

Drawing, Stage Design: Variation of the Palace Terrace, Act I, Scene 2, for Don Giovanni, 1957; Designed by Eugene Berman (American, b. Russia, 1899–1972); Music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austrian, 1756–1791); Client: Metropolitan Opera; USA; pen and black, red ink, brush and watercolor on paper mounted on cardboard; 15.6 × 12.7 cm (6 1/8 in. × 5 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Ogden Codman; 1958-138-1

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