Inscription
upper left margin in brown ink: 36; lower left in brown ink: Dom.o Tiepolo f
Provenance
Sotheby's London, 6 July 1920, part of 41; Richard Owen, Paris; Countess Wachmeister; Sotheby's London, 15 December 1954, 110; William Hallsborough Gallery London, 1955; Richard S. Davis, Minneapolis, MN; Robert H. and Clarice Smith, Bethesda, MD; given to NGA, 1979.
Exhibition History
- 1921
- Divertimento per li Ragazzi, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 1921, (unpubl.)
- 1954
- Fine Old Master Drawings and Paintings, Sotheby & Co., London, December 15, 1954, no. 110
- 1955
- Exhibition of Fine Painting of Four Centuries, The Hallsborough Gallery, London, 1955, no. 24.
- 1979
- Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings, Indiana University Art museum and Stanford University Art Museum, Indiana and California, 1979, no. 37.
- 1980
- Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings, The Frick Collection, New York, 1980.
- 1985
- Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1985-1986.
- 1990
- The Mask of Comedy: The Art of Italian Commedia, The JB Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 1990, no. 41.
- 1995
- Splendori del Settecento Veneziano, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1995, 475, 476, no. 203 (repro. p. 475)(entry by Attilia Dorigato).
- 1996
- Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman, Civici Musei e Gallerie di Storia ed Arte, Udine, 1996; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1997, no. 170, as The Happy Release.
- 1996
- Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman, Indiana University Museum of Art, 1996, no. 170
- 2004
- Tiepolo: Ironia e Comico, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 2004, no. 37.
- 2014
- The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 118.
Bibliography
- 1955
- Nicholson, Benedict. "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions," The Burlington Magazine 97.625 (1955): 724.
- 1979
- Vetrocq, Marcia E. Domenico Tiepolo’s Punchinello drawings. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1979: 110-111.
- 1983
- Knox, George. "Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings: Satire or Labor of Love," Satire in the 18th Century. (New York & London: 1983): 128 and 144, under #36.
- 1984
- Knox, G. "The Punchinello Drawings of Giambattista Tiepolo," Interpretazioni Veneziani: Studi di storia dell'arte in onore di Michelangelo Muraro. (Venice 1984): 128, 131, 144.
- 1986
- Gealt, Adelheid. Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings. (New York: 1986): 104-105, no. 40.
- 1990
- Pedrocco, Filippo. Disegni di Giandomenico Tiepolo. (Milan: 1990): 89, pl. 32.
- 1991
- Quinn, Michael L. "The Comedy of Reference: The Semiotics of Commedia Figues in Eighteenth-Century Venice," Theater Journal 43.1 (1991): 89 (reproduction only).
- 1995
- Splendori del Settecento Veneziano. Exh. cat. Electa, Milan, 1995: 475-476.
- 1996
- Gealt, Adelheid M. and George Knox. Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman. Electa, Milan, 1996: 100, 231.
- 1998
- Shefer, Elaine. "Masks/Personae." In Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art, edited by Helene E. Roberts. 2 vols. Chicago, 1998: 2:578.
- 2004
- Gealt, Adelheid M., "Divertimento per li Ragazzi," Tiepolo: Ironia e comico. (Venice: 2004): 185.
- 2004
- Mariuz, Adriano and Giuseppe Pavanello. Tiepolo: Ironia e comico. Marsilio, Venice, 2004: 200, 202.
- 2012
- McHale, Katherine. "Child's Play? Giandomenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings and the Fall of Venice." Master Drawings 50, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 108-109, fig. 13 (color).
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