GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)

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Lot 39 | GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)

A group of Punchinellos watching the making of glass

signed ‘Do: Tiepolo f’ (lower right) and numbered, probably by the artist, ‘30’ (in the border, upper left)

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark letters ‘AHF’ (cf. Heawood 884)

34.5 x 46.7 cm (13 5/8 x 18 3/8 in.)





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).



Literature

J. Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London, 1962, p. 52, no. 2, 3.

M.E. Vetrocq, Domenico Tiepolo’s Punchinello Drawings, exhib. cat., Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum and Stanford University Art Museum, 1979-1980, no. S10, ill., p. 19.

A.M. Gealt, Domenico Tiepolo. The Punchinello Drawings, New York 1986, no. 20, 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. 30, ill., p. 245 [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. RBF124 (catalogued by F. Russell).

S. Bostock, The Pictorial Wit of Domenico Tiepolo, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Warwick, 2009, I, no. 30, ill.



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, 1938.

Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Works of Art from the Ford Collection, 1946, no. 145 (catalogue by B. Ford).

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

Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Tiepolo. Ironia e comico, 2004, no. 133, ill. (note by A. M. Gealt).

Venice, Palazzo Ducale, and Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Canaletto & Venezia, 2018-2019, no. VII.13, ill. [French edition titled Éblouissante Venise. Venise, les arts et l’Europe au XVIIIe siècle].

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