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GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO, CALLED GIAMBATTISTA TIEPOLO (VENICE 1696-1770 MADRID)

Lot 22
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Lot 22 | GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO, CALLED GIAMBATTISTA TIEPOLO (VENICE 1696-1770 MADRID)
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£ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO, CALLED GIAMBATTISTA TIEPOLO (VENICE 1696-1770 MADRID)
Guilty Punchinello
oil on canvas
40 x 64 ¾ in. (101.6 x 164.5 cm.)




Provenance

(Possibly) Francesco Scipione Maffei (1675-1755), Verona (according to G. Knox, 1984, op. cit. infra).
(Possibly) Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764), Venice (according to V. Sears Goldman, 2012, op. cit. infra).
Private collection, Milan (according to the family archives of the present owners).
Albert Besnard (1849-1934), probably acquired between 1913 and 1921, when Besnard was the head of the Académie de France in Rome; his sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 31 May-1st June 1934, (Maitre Petit presiding), lot 54 (=1st day), as 'Gian Domenico Tiepolo', where acquired for 5,000 francs by,
Georges Terrisse (1885-1963) (according to the Archives de Paris, AP/D147E3 6), from whom acquired 1 August 1934, for 6,500 francs by,
Édouard Mortier (1883-1946), duc de Trévise, founder and president of Sauvegarde de l'Art Français, and by descent in the family to the present owners.



Literature

A. Guinle, 'L'atelier d'Albert Besnard', Beaux-Arts. Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité, 20 December 1929, XII, p. 25.
D. C. Rich, 'A Great Exhibition by the Two Tiepolos', Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, February 1938, XXXII, 2, II, p. 26, as 'Gian Domenico Tiepolo'.
D. C. Rich, 'Laocoon and Punchinello', Parnassus, February 1938, XX, 2, p. 7, as 'Gian Domenico Tiepolo'.
U. Middeldorf, 'Eine Tiepolo-Ausstellung in Chicago', Pantheon. Monatsschrift für freunde und sammler der Kunst, XXI, January-June 1938, p. 146 and p. 18 of the English language supplement.
B. Geis, 'Punchinello's Merry Pranks', Coronet, June 1938, IV, 2, p. 177, illustrated.
A. Morassi, A complete catalogue of the paintings of G. B. Tiepolo, London, 1962, p. 40, erroneously listed in the collection of the duc de Trévise prior to the 1934 sale, unpaginated, fig. 421.
G. Piovene and A. Pallucchini, L'opera complete di Giambattista Tiepolo, Milan, 1968, p. 133, no. 284, p. 132, illustrated.
A. Mariuz, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Venice, 1971, p. 86, note 106, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo', erroneously listed in the collection of the duc de Trévise prior to the 1934 sale.
J. Cailleux, 'La famille des Tiepolo', Giambattista Tiepolo 1696-1770, Domenico Tiepolo 1727-1804, Lorenzo Tiepolo 1736-1776. Peintures - Dessins - Pastels, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1974, unpaginated, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
A. Lowe, La Serenissima.The Last Flowering of the Venetian Republic, London, 1974, p. 147, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
M. Vetrocq, The Divertimento per le regazzi of Domenico Tiepolo, doctoral thesis, Stanford University, Stanford, 1979, pp. 45-6, p. 265, fig. 17, as 'Domenico Tiepolo'.
M. Vetrocq, Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Bloomington and Stanford, 1979, pp. 27 and 32, note 27, as 'Domenico Tiepolo'.
J. Browning, Satire in the 18th century, New York-London, 1983, p. 133, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
G. Knox, 'The Punchinello Drawings of Giambattista Tiepolo', D. Rosand ed., Interpretazioni veneziane: Studi di storia dell’ arte in onore di Michelangelo Muraro, Venice, 1984, pp. 442-3, fig. 13, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
Y. Bonnefoy et al., Tout l'oeuvre peint de Tiepolo, Paris, 1990, p. 135, no. 293, p. 134, illustrated, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
F. C. Greco, Pulcinella maschera del mondo. Pulcinella e le arti dal Cinquecento al Novecento, exhibition catalogue, Naples, 1990, pp. 280 and 284, under no. 6.6, p. 281, illustrated, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
V. Carlson, Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries, New York, 1992, p. 134, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
M. Gemin and F. Pedrocco, Giambattista Tiepolo. I dipinti. Opera completa, Venice, 1993, p. 480, no. 506, erroneously listed in the collection of the duc de Trévise prior to the 1934 sale, illustrated.
S. Loire and J. de Los Llanos, Giambattista Tiepolo 1696-1770, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1998-1999, p. 232, under no. 78, listed as lost, but likely in the UK in the collection of the Prince of Wales, p. 233, fig. 119.
A. Mariuz, 'Tiepolo 1998', Arte Veneta, January 1999, CIV, p. 90, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
F. Pedrocco, Giambattista Tiepolo, Paris, 2002, p. 249, no. 154.1, illustrated.
J. Anderson, Tiepolo’s Cleopatra, Melbourne, 2003, p. 87, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
A. Mariuz and F. Pedrocco, Giandomenico Tiepolo. Les fresques de Zianigo à Ca' Rezzonico, Venice, 2004, p. 31, note 10, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
A. Zorzi, L'Olimpo sul soffitto. Il due Tiepolo tra Venezia e l'Europa, Milan, 2006, p. 87, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
C. Loisel ed., L’appel de l’Italie: artistes français et nordiques dans la péninsule. Dessins des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, exhibition catalogue, Montreuil, 2006, p. 182, under no. 78, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
C. Loisel ed., Venise, l’art de la Serenissima. Dessins des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, exhibition catalogue, Montreuil, 2006, p. 144, under no. 62, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
C. Gouzi, 'Albert Besnard (1849-1934) ou les stratégies du collectionneur', in P. Prévost-Marcilhacy, P. Michel, Collectionner aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Les hommes, l’esprit et les lieux, Paris, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, 10-12 March 2011, 2021, p. 13, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
G. Bergamini et al., Giambattista Tiepolo : 'il miglior pittore di Venezia', exhibition catalogue, Passariano, 2012, p. 237, under no. 31.
V. Sears Goldman, 'The Most Beautiful Punchinelli in the World'. A Comprehensive Study of the Punchinello Drawings of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, doctoral thesis, Princeton University, Princeton, 2012, pp. 403, 410 and 523-528, no. A2, fig. 38, and p. 529, fig. 38.
R.-M. Herda-Mousseaux et al., Sérénissime ! Venise en fête de Tiepolo à Guardi, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 2017, p. 135, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
M. Carraro, Maschera fra le maschere: I Pulcinella di Giandomenico Tiepolo nella società veneziana alla fine del Settecento, thesis, Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, 2020, pp. 31 and 83, illustrated, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
T. Marks, 'A surfeit of gnocchi', Apollo, December 2021, 703, p. 113, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.



Exhibited

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the two Tiepolos. Giambattista and Giandomenico, 4 February-6 March 1938, no. 39, as 'Giambattista Tiepolo'.
Artist:Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696 - 1770)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Old Masters
Genre:Genre art
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
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