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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Punchinello's Farewell to Venice, 1798/1802

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series Title

Divertimento per li regazzi

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over charcoal on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 35.1 × 46.7 cm (13 13/16 × 18 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith

Accession Number

1979.76.4

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1727 - 1804

Image Use

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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.

Associated Names

Davis, Richard S.
Owen, Richard
Smith, Robert H., Mr. and Mrs.
Sotheby's, London
Wachtmeister, Elizabeth, Countess

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).