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Punchinello learning to walk by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Punchinello learning to walk

Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark half moon
34.6 x 46.7 cm (13.63 x 18.38 in)
Works on Paper
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, London (30 Jul 2020)
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Jul 30, 2020
Christie'sLondonClassic Art Evening Sale: Antiquity to 20th Century56
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Artwork Description
Category

Works on Paper

Dimensions

34.6 x 46.7 cm (13.63 x 18.38 in)

Materials

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark half moon

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 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).

Exhibited

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Dessins de G.D. Tiepolo, 1921 (without catalogue).

London, Matthiesen Gallery, Venetian Paintings and Drawings Held in Aid of Lord Baldwin’s Fund for Refugees, 1939, no. 139.

Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Works of Art from the Ford Collection, 1946, no. 143 (catalogue by B. Ford).

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, and Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery, Eighteenth Century Venice, 1951, no. 138b (note by F.J.B. Watson).

Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Tiepolo. Ironia e comico, 2004, no. 128, ill. (note by A. M. Gealt).

Venice, Palazzo Ducale, and Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Canaletto & Venezia, 2018-2019, no. VII.08, ill., p. 353 [French edition titled Éblouissante Venise. Venise, les arts et l’Europe au XVIIIe siècle].

Literature

J. Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London, 1962, no. 85, pl. 85.

M.E. Vetrocq, Domenico Tiepolo’s Punchinello Drawings, exhib. cat., Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum and Stanford University Art Museum, 1979-1980, no. S5, ill., p. 139.

A.M. Gealt, Domenico Tiepolo. The Punchinello Drawings, New York, 1986, no. 16, ill. [French edition titled Gian Domenico Tiepolo. Dessins de Polichinelle, Arcueil, 1986].

A.M. Gealt and G. Knox, Giandomenico Tiepolo. Maestria e gioco. Disegni dal mondo, exhib. cat., Udine, Castello di Udine, and Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum, 1996-1997, p. 244, no. 11 [English edition titled Domenico Tiepolo, Master Draftsman].

B. Ford, ‘The Ford Collection’, Walpole Society, LX, II, 1998, pp. 99-101, no. RBF121 (catalogued by F. Russell).

S. Bostock, The Pictorial Wit of Domenico Tiepolo, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Warwick, 2009, I, no. 11, ill.

R. Tumanow, ‘Groteskes Korpus. Theatrale, narrative und referenzielle Aspekte des Divertimento per li Regazzi von Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo’, Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, LXXX, 2019, p. 221, fig. 13.