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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
Lot 58 PROPERTY OF A TRUST

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)

Punchinellos digging a grave

Closed29 July 2020

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GBP 162,500

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
Punchinellos digging a grave
signed ‘Dom. Tiepolo f’ (lower right) and numbered, probably by the artist, ‘43’ (in the border, upper left)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark letters VC surmounted by a star in a crest
13 ¾ x 18 ¼ in. (34.8 x 46.3 cm.)

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).

Specialist note

The exact meaning of this scene is not entirely clear, but in it, Domenico has beautifully captured a more serious and solemn mood than in many of the other drawings for the series. The cow at lower right appears in reverse at the centre of a sheet in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. 1975.1.529).