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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.421
People
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1727 - 1804 Venice, Italy)
Title
Group of Punchinelli with Dancing Dogs
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1793
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296765

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash on white antique laid paper
Dimensions
35.3 x 47.3 cm (13 7/8 x 18 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Brown ink, lower left: Do: Tiepolo f.
  • inscription: Numbered, upper left: 22; on verso, graphite: The same painted in the Casa Tiepolo in Zianigo
  • watermark: Three crescents (Mongan-Sachs W. 27)
  • inscription: lower left: Do. Tiepolo f.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Sotheby's, London, 1920], sold; to [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London]. [Richard Owen, Paris], sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1927), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.421
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Arthur McComb, Exhibition of Italian Painting of the Sei- and Settecento, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art / Morgan Memorial (Hartford, CT, 1930), no. 63
  • The Tragic and the Grotesque Expressed by Masks and Clowns, exh. cat., Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1935), no. 63
  • Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos, Giambattista and Giandomenico, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1938), no. 107
  • The Stage: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Public Education Association, exh. cat., Jacques Seligmann & Co. (New York, 1939), cat. no. 8
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 357, pp. 176-77; vol. 2, repr. fig. 181
  • Antonio Morassi, "Domenico Tiepolo", Emporium, Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche (Bergamo, Italy, June 1941), vol. XCIII, repr. p. 277
  • Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Pulcinella, G. Casini (Rome, Italy, 1953), repr. p. 200
  • Helen Comstock, "Eighteenth-Century Italian Figure Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum", The Connoisseur (May 1955), vol. CXXXV, no. 546, pp. 274-280, repr. fig. 5
  • James Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, Faber & Faber (London) (London, England, 1962), p. 57, n. 1
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 37, repr.
  • George Knox, Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition 1770-1970; Drawings, Mainly from American Collections, by Giambattista Tiepolo and the Members of His Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1970), cat. no. 104, repr.
  • Marcia E. Vetrocq, Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings, exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum/Stanford University Museum of Art (Bloomington, IN, 1979), cat. no. 22, repr.
  • Adelheid Gealt, Domenico Tiepolo: The Punchinello Drawings (New York, NY, 1986), cat. no. 26, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 75, n.p., and p. 71, repr. color
  • Filippo Pedrocco, Disegni di Giandomenico Tiepolo (Milan, Italy, 1990), cat. no. 38, repr. fig. 38
  • Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman, exh. cat., Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN, 1997)
  • Heiko Damm and Henning Hoesch, ed., Galleria Portatile: Old Master Drawings from the Hoesch Collection, Michael Imhof Verlag (Petersberg, 2017), pp. 283-284, repr. p. 285 as fig. 4

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Paris, 1921, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 01/01/1921 - 12/31/1921
  • Italian Painting of the Sei and Settecento, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 01/22/1930 - 02/05/1930
  • The Tragic and the Grotesque Expressed by Masks and Clowns, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/07/1935 - 03/30/1935
  • Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos: Giambattista and Giandomenico, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 02/03/1938 - 03/06/1938
  • The Stage: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Public Education Association, Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, 04/03/1939 - 04/22/1939
  • Divertissements, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 01/01/1941 - 01/31/1941
  • Master Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 06/01/1943 - 08/31/1943
  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • Venice in the Eighteenth Century, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/05/1948 - 06/10/1948
  • Art, Carnival and the Circus: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 01/23/1949 - 02/17/1949
  • Three Centuries of the Comic Spirit, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, 05/01/1953 - 05/30/1953
  • An Evening of Italian Art and Music, Boston University, Boston, 03/07/1955 - 03/14/1955
  • Master Drawings, Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, 11/16/1959 - 12/05/1959
  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
  • Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition, 1770-1970, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1970 - 05/03/1970
  • Domenico Tiepolo's Pulcinella Drawings, University of Indiana, Bloomington, 09/02/1979 - 10/06/1979; Stanford University Museum of Art, 11/13/1979 - 12/30/1979
  • Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman, University of Indiana, Bloomington, 01/15/1997 - 03/09/1997

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