The Game of the Cooking Pot
c. 1744
Artist, Venetian, 1702 - 1785
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 32
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 49.9 x 61.7 cm (19 5/8 x 24 5/16 in.)
framed: 65.4 x 55.9 x 3.8 cm (25 3/4 x 22 x 1 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1939.1.64
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Prince Alberto Giovanelli [1896-1937], Venice, until c. 1930.[1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Rome); purchased 1931 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] According to typed note from the Kress Records, NGA curatorial files.
[2] According to typed note from the Kress Records, NGA curatorial files, and Fern Rusk Shapley, Catalogue of Italian Paintings, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:268; see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2182.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1933
A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933, no. 148.
1936
Venetian Painting of the XVIIIth Century, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1936, no. 17.
1938
Tiepolo and His Contemporaries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1938, no. 24, repro., as The Game of Pignatta.
1993
Pietro Longhi, Museo Correr, Venice, 1993-1994, no. 45, repro.
Bibliography
1931
Venturi, Lionello. Pitture italiane in America. Milan, 1931. Translated as Italian Paintings in America. 3 vols. New York and Milan, 1933: 3:pl. 587.
1932
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Eighteenth Century Venice in a New York Collection." The Fine Arts 19 (December 1932): 10, repro. 9.
1935
Tietze, Hans. Meisterwerke europäischer Malerei in Amerika. Vienna, 1935: 118, repro. (English ed., Masterpieces of European Painting in America. New York, 1939: 118, repro.).
1938
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Tiepolo comes to New York: The XVIII Century Venetians at the Metropolitan." Art News 36 (12 March 1938): 24.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 110, no. 175, as Blind Man's Buff.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 243, repro. 134.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 59, repro., as Blind Man's Bluff.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 139, repro.
1946
Longhi, Roberto. Viatico per cinque secoli di pittura veneziana. Florence, 1946: 69, pl. 157.
1951
Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 107-109, repro, as Blind Man's Buff.
1952
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 72, color repro.
1953
Bacchelli, Riccardo, and Robert Longhi. Teatro e immagini del settecento italiano. Turin, 1953: 118, pl. 11.
1956
Moschini, Vittorio. Pietro Longhi. Milan, 1956: pl. 19.
1957
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 119, as A Game of Pignatta.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 242, repro.
1960
Pallucchini 1960, 180-181.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 76.
1966
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:332, color repro., as Blindman's Buff.
1968
Pignatti, Terisio. Pietro Longhi. Venice, 1968: 116, pl. 68.
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 67, repro.
Gandolfo, Giampaolo et al. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Great Museums of the World. New York, 1968: 55-56, color repro.
1969
Pignatti, Terisio. Pietro Longhi: Paintings and Drawings. Translated by Pamela Waley. London, 1969: 20, 104, pl. 68.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: 109.
1973
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 136, fig. 269.
1974
Pignatti, Terisio. L'opera completa di Pietro Longhi. Milan, 1974: 88, no. 41, color pl. 14.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 198, repro.
1978
King, Marian. Adventures in Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1978: 66, pl. 39, as Blindman's Buff.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:267-268; 2:pl. 184.
1982
Sohm, Philip L. "Pietro Longhi and Carlo Goldoni: Relations between Painting and Theater." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 45 (1982): 264-265.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 350, no. 488, color repro., as Blindman's Buff.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 232, repro.
1986
Spike, John. Giuseppe Maria Crespi and the Emergence of Genre Painting in Italy. Exh. cat. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1986: 196.
1993
Mariuz, Adriano, Giuseppe Pavanello, and Giandomenico Romanelli. Pietro Longhi. Exh. cat. Museo Correr, Venice, 1993: 16, 17, 20, 90, no. 45, color pl. 91.
1996
De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 171-176, color repro. 173.
1998
Bowron, Edgar Peters. "A Celebration of Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art." In the sale catalogue for Theta Charity Antiques Show of Houston, Venice: The Masque of Italy, Sept. 17-20, 1998: 28-29, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q20177947