Provenance

Elizabeth, Countess Wachtmeister

Swedish, 1834 - 1918

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Punchinello's Farewell to Venice, 1798/1802, pen and brown ink with brown wash over charcoal on laid paper, Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith, 1979.76.4

Punchinello's Farewell to Venice

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1798/1802 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over charcoal on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1979.76.4

Shown from the hips up, a young man with pale skin and wearing black clothing sits with his body angled to our right as he turns to look at us in this vertical portrait painting. He looks out with green eyes under hooded lids. Light falls across his face from the upper left so his bumped nose casts a shadow on his high cheekbone. He has a wispy mustache over full, pink lips, which are slightly parted. His hair falls to his shoulders in auburn-brown curls, framing his slender face. Two silvery tassels hang on cords from a tall, wide, flat, bright white collar, which contrasts with the velvety black of his voluminous, long-sleeved jacket. His left hand, farther from us, rests on his knee and the other hand is curled so the back of his knuckles press against his right hip, closer to us. A patch of crimson red near that hand could be a pillow on his chair. His hat rests, presumably on a table, just beyond his legs. The hat has a tall, tapering, conical crown with a flat top. The shadowy wall behind him is mottled with slate gray and caramel brown, with a slightly darker panel to suggest a shallow niche.
Rembrandt van Rijn, A Young Man Seated at a Table (possibly Govaert Flinck), c. 1660, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.77

A Young Man Seated at a Table (possibly Govaert Flinck)

Rembrandt van Rijn · c. 1660 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1937.1.77