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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
Lot 46 The Property of a Trust

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)

Punchinellos at a fruit and vegetable stall

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
Punchinellos at a fruit and vegetable stall
signed ‘Dom.o Tiepolo f’ (lower right) and numbered, probably by the artist, ‘51’ (in the border, upper left)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark three crescents (cf. Heawood 867)
13 ½ x 18 ¼ in. (34.3 x 46.4 cm)

Anonymous sale; London, Sotheby’s, 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).

Specialist note

Several drawings depict Punchinellos doing business (see Gealt, op. cit., 1986, nos. 43, 46, 47, 48); this sheet is one of the most colourful. The stall at this market overflows with apples, gourds and melons, while at left two Punchinellos ‘examine a different kind of melon on a female companion. Her indifference to their familiarity suggests that she is a vendor of another sort’ (ibid., p. 120). A very similar pair of Punchinello appears in one of the roughly contemporary frescoes made by Domenico Tiepolo for the family villa at Zianigo, now at the Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice (see fig. 3).