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Lot 41 |The Property of a Trust
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)
Punchinello and his family in a farmyard, spinning flax
Closed4 July 2023
Price Realised
GBP 126,000
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GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)
Punchinello and his family in a farmyard, spinning flax
signed ‘Dom.o/ Tiepolo f’ (upper left) and numbered, probably by the artist, ‘44’ (in the border, upper left)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark three crescents (cf. Heawood 867)
34.4 x 46.2 cm (13 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.)
Punchinello and his family in a farmyard, spinning flax
signed ‘Dom.o/ Tiepolo f’ (upper left) and numbered, probably by the artist, ‘44’ (in the border, upper left)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark three crescents (cf. Heawood 867)
34.4 x 46.2 cm (13 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.)
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)
Punchinello and his family in a farmyard, spinning flax
signed ‘Dom.o/ Tiepolo f’ (upper left) and numbered, probably by the artist, ‘44’ (in the border, upper left)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark three crescents (cf. Heawood 867)
34.4 x 46.2 cm (13 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.)
Punchinello and his family in a farmyard, spinning flax
signed ‘Dom.o/ Tiepolo f’ (upper left) and numbered, probably by the artist, ‘44’ (in the border, upper left)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark three crescents (cf. Heawood 867)
34.4 x 46.2 cm (13 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.)
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).
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).
J. Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London, 1962, p. 52, nos. 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. S7, ill., p. 118.
G. Knox,‘The Punchinello Drawings of Giambattista Tiepolo’ in Interpretazione Veneziane. Studia di storia dell’arte in onore di Michelangelo Muraro, p. 127.
A.M. Gealt, Domenico Tiepolo. The Punchinello Drawings, New York, 1986, no. 6, ill. [French edition: Gian Domenico Tieopolo. 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. 44, p. 245 (as Eva fila) [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. RBF 126 (catalogued by F. Russell).
S. Bostock, The Pictorial Wit of Domenico Tiepolo, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Warwick, 2009, I, no. 44, ill.
M.E. Vetrocq, Domenico Tiepolo’s Punchinello Drawings, exhib. cat., Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum and Stanford University Art Museum, 1979-1980, no. S7, ill., p. 118.
G. Knox,‘The Punchinello Drawings of Giambattista Tiepolo’ in Interpretazione Veneziane. Studia di storia dell’arte in onore di Michelangelo Muraro, p. 127.
A.M. Gealt, Domenico Tiepolo. The Punchinello Drawings, New York, 1986, no. 6, ill. [French edition: Gian Domenico Tieopolo. 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. 44, p. 245 (as Eva fila) [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. RBF 126 (catalogued by F. Russell).
S. Bostock, The Pictorial Wit of Domenico Tiepolo, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Warwick, 2009, I, no. 44, ill.
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Dessins de G.D. Tiepolo, 1921 (without catalogue).
Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Works of Art from the Ford Collection, 1946, no. 148 (catalogue by B. Ford).
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, and Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery, Eighteenth Century Venice, 1951, no. 138h (note by F.J.B. Watson).
Venice, Palazzo Ducale, and Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Canaletto e Venezia, 2018-2019, no. VII.17, ill. [French edition titled Éblouissante Venise. Venise, les arts et l’Europe au XVIIIe siècle].
Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Works of Art from the Ford Collection, 1946, no. 148 (catalogue by B. Ford).
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, and Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery, Eighteenth Century Venice, 1951, no. 138h (note by F.J.B. Watson).
Venice, Palazzo Ducale, and Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Canaletto e Venezia, 2018-2019, no. VII.17, ill. [French edition titled Éblouissante Venise. Venise, les arts et l’Europe au XVIIIe siècle].
Specialist note
See under lot 39.