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Punchinellos in a barber's shop by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Punchinellos in a barber's shop

Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark three crescents (cf. Heawood 867)
34.6 x 46.7 cm (13.63 x 18.38 in)
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, London (30 Jul 2020)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Jul 30, 2020
Christie'sLondonClassic Art Evening Sale: Antiquity to 20th Century57
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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 three crescents (cf. Heawood 867)

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.

Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 23 December 1931, lot 30.

with Matthiesen, 24 March 1937, and sold for £70 to

Brinsley, later Sir Brinsley, Ford (1908-1999).

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. 147 (catalogue by B. Ford).

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

Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Tiepolo. Ironia e comico, 2004, no. 140, ill. (note by A. M. Gealt).

Venice, Palazzo Ducale, and Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Canaletto & Venezia, 2018-2019, no. VII.15, ill. [French edition titled Éblouissante Venise. Venise, les arts et l’Europe au XVIIIe siècle].

Literature

M.E. Vetrocq, Domenico Tiepolo’s Punchinello Drawings, exhib. cat., Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum and Stanford University Art Museum, 1979-1980, no. S49, ill., p. 157.

A.M. Gealt, Domenico Tiepolo. The Punchinello Drawings, New York 1986, no. 49, ill. [French edition: 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. 245, no. 53 [English edition titled Domenico Tiepolo, Master Draftsman].

B. Ford, ‘The Ford Collection’, Walpole Society, LX, II, 1998, pp. 99-101, no. RBF129 (catalogued by F. Russell).

S. Bostock, The Pictorial Wit of Domenico Tiepolo, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Warwick, 2009, I, no. 53, ill.