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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 5, 2022 | Christie's | London | Old Master and British Works on Paper: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1500-1900 | 20 | $****** - ****** | The apparition of the skeleton of Punchinello before his tomb |
Works on Paper
34.9 x 47 cm (13.74 x 18.5 in)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, brown ink framing lines, watermark monogram beginning with ‘SO’
numbered ‘104' (upper left) and signed ‘D o : Tiepolo/ f.' (lower right)
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1920, part of lot 41 (£610 to Colnaghi).
with Colnaghi, London, by whom sold, January 1921, to
Richard Owen, Paris, by whom broken up and sold individually through Matthiesen, 24 March 1937.
Le´on Suzor, Paris; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19 March 1965, lot 65.
Georges Bernier, Paris.
Alice M. Kaplan (1903-1995), New York (L. 3061).
with Eugene V. Thaw & Co., New York.
Paris, Muse´e des Arts De´coratifs, Dessins de G.D. Tiepolo , 1921 (without catalogue).
Paris, Muse´e Carnavalet, Chefs-d'œuvre des collections parisiennes , 1950, no. 152, ill.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Pierpont Morgan Library, Drawings from New York Collections, III, 1971, no. 284, ill.
Southampton, Parrish Art Museum, Commedia dell'Arte , 1971 (without catalogue).
J. Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London, 1962, p. 52, n. 3.
A. Mariuz, Giandomenico Tiepolo , Venice, [1971], p. 87, n. 107.
P.P. Fehl, ‘Farewell to Jokes: The Last Capricci of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and the Tradition of Irony in Venetian Painting', in Critical Inquiry , V, no. 4, Summer 1978-1979, Chicago, pp. 787, fig. 22.
M.E. Vetrocq, Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings , exhib. cat., Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum, and Stanford, Stanford University Museum of Art, 1979-1980, no. S23, ill.
L. Bantel, The Alice M. Kaplan Collection , New York, 1981, no. 44, ill.
G. Knox, ‘Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings: Satire, or Labor of Love?', in Satire in the Eighteenth Century , New York and London, 1983, pp. 130, 146
A.M. Gealt, Domenico Tiepolo. The Punchinello Drawings , New York, 1986, no. 77, ill. [French edition: Gian Domenico Tiepolo. Dessins de Polichinelle , Arcueil, 1986].
G. Knox in Giandomenico Tiepolo. Maestria e gioco. Disegni dal mondo , exhib. cat., Udine, Castello di Udine, and Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum, 1996-1997, p. 98, ill., p. 247, no. 104.
S. Bostock, The Pictorial Wit of Domenico Tiepolo , I, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Warwick, 2009, no. 103, ill.
G. Agamben, Pulcinella ovvero divertimento per li regazzi , Rome, 2015, no. 28, pp. 82-83, ill.
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)
The apparition of the skeleton of Punchinello before his tomb
numbered ‘104' (upper left) and signed ‘D o : Tiepolo/ f.' (lower right)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, brown ink framing lines, watermark monogram beginning with ‘SO'
34.9 x 47 cm (13 3⁄4 x 18 1⁄2 in.)
