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GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)
A group of Punchinellos examining a spider crab
signed ‘Dom.o Tiepolo f’ (lower right) and with modern number (replacing the old number) ‘23’ (in the border, upper left)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark three crescents (cf. Heawood 867)
34.7 x 46.8 cm (13 5/8 x 18 3/8 in.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; London, Sotheby’s, 6 July 1920, part of lot 41 (where bought by Colnaghi for £610).
with Colnaghi, London, by whom sold, January 1921, to the following
with Richard Owen, Paris, by whom broken up and sold individually through Matthiesen, 24 March 1937, for £70 to
Brinsley, later Sir Brinsley, Ford (1908-1999).
Literature
G. Fogolari et al., Il Settecento Italiano, Rome and Milan, 1932, I, pl. CXCVI.
A.G. Bragaglia, Pulcinella, Rome, 1953, ill., p. 308.
J. Byam Shaw The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London, 1962, p. 52, nos. 2, 3, and p. 56, no. 2.
M.E. Vetrocq, Domenico Tiepolo’s Punchinello Drawings, exhib. cat., Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum and Stanford University Art Museum, 1979-1980, no. S34, ill., p127.
A.M. Gealt, Domenico Tiepolo. The Punchinello Drawings, New York, 1986, no. 27, ill. [French edition: Gian Domenico Tiepolo. Dessins de Polichinelle, Arcueil, 1986].
A.M. Gealt and G. Knox, Domenico Tiepolo, Master Draftsman, exhib. cat., Udine, Castello di Udine, and Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum, 1996-1997, no. 23, p. 244, [Italian edition titled Giandomenico Tiepolo. Maestria e gioco. Disegni dal mondo].
B. Ford, ‘The Ford Collection’, Walpole Society, LX, II, 1998, pp. 99-101, no. RBF123 (catalogued by F. Russell).
S. Bostock, The Pictorial Wit of Domenico Tiepolo, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Warwick, 2009, I, no. 23, ill.
Exhibited
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Dessins de G.D. Tiepolo, 1921 (without catalogue).
Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Works of Art from the Ford Collection, 1946, no. 126 (catalogue by B. Ford).
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, and Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery, Eighteenth Century Venice, 1951, no. 138n (note by F.J.B. Watson).
Venice, Palazzo Giardini, Mostra del Tiepolo, 1951, p. 188, no. 143 or 144 (catalogue by G. Lorenzetti).
Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Five Centuries of Drawings, 1953, no. 65, ill.
Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Tiepolo. Ironia e comico, 2004, p. 185, no. 144, ill. (note by A.M. Gealt).
Venice, Palazzo Ducale, and Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Canaletto & Venezia, 2018-2019, no. VII.14, ill. [French edition titled Éblouissante Venise. Venise, les arts et l’Europe au XVIIIe siècle].