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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

The Prison Visit, 1797/1804

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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

1979.76.3

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1727 - 1804

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Inscription

upper left in brown ink: 34; center left on bridge in brown ink: Dom.o Tiepolo f

Provenance

Private collection; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1920, part of lot 41, which included 103 Punchinello drawings from the series, Divertimento per li Ragazzi); Richard Owen, Paris; Paul Suzor, Paris; David Carritt Gallery, London; Robert H. and Clarice Smith; given to NGA in 1979.

Associated Names

Owen, Richard
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Smith, Robert H., Mr. and Mrs.
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

1921: Divertimento per li Ragazzi, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 1921, (unpubl.)

1971: Venise au dix-huitième siècle, Peintures, dessins et gravures des collections françaises, Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, 1971, no. 310.

1979: Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings, Indiana University Art Museum and Stanford University Art Museum, Indiana and California, 1979, no. 37.

1980: Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings, The Frick Collection, New York, 1980.

1983: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1983.

1994: The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 330, 505, no. 224 (repro. p. 330, color)(entry by Adriano Mariuz).

1995: Splendori del Settecento Veneziano, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1995, 472, 474, no. 202 (repro. p. 474)(entry by Adriano Mariuz).

1996: Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman, Civici Musei e Gallerie di Storia ed Arte, Udine, 1996; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1997, no. 168.

2004: Tiepolo: Ironia e Comico, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 2004, no. 35.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 117.

Bibliography

1971: Venise au dix-huitième siècle: Peintures, dessins et gravures des collections françaises. Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, 1971: 192.

1979: Vetrocq, Marcia E. Domenico Tiepolo’s Punchinello drawings. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1979: 103-103, no. 33.

1986: Gealt, Adelheid M. Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings. (New York: 1986): 100-101, no. 38.

1990: Pedrocco, Filippo. Disegni di Giandomenico Tiepolo. (Milan: 1990): 89, no. 32.

1994: The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: 330, 505, no. 224.

1995: Splendori del Settecento Veneziano. Exh. cat. Electa, Milan, 1995: 472, 474, 476.

1996: Gealt, Adelheid M. and George Knox. Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman. Electa, Milan, 1996: 100, 229.

2004: Mariuz, Adriano and Giuseppe Pavanello. Tiepolo: Ironia e comico. Marsilio, Venice, 2004: 198, 201.