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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 4, 2019 | Christie's | London | Old Masters Evening Sale | 42 | $****** - ****** | The birth of Punchinello’s father |
Works on Paper
34.6 x 46.7 cm (13.63 x 18.38 in)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark three crescents (cf. Heawood 867)
signed ‘Dom.o Tiepolo f’ (lower right) and numbered, probably by the artist, ‘1’ (in the border, upper left), watermark three crescents (cf. Heawood 867)
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.
with Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence, by whom sold in December 1936 for £100 to
Brinsley, later Sir Brinsley, Ford (1908-1999)
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Dessins de G.D. Tiepolo, 1921 (without catalogue).
Venice, Palazzo delle Biennali ai Giardini, Il Settecento Italiano, 1929, p. 27, section 5, in nos. 77-81.
Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exhibition of Works of Art from the Ford Collection, 1946, no. 125 (catalogue by B. Ford).
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, and Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery, Eighteenth Century Venice, 1951, no. 138a, fig. VIII(b) (note by F.J.B. Watson).
Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Tiepolo. Ironia e comico, 2004, p. 184, no. 125, ill. (note by A.M. Gealt).
Venice, Palazzo Ducale, and Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Canaletto & Venezia, 2019, no. VII.09, ill. [French edition titled Éblouissante Venise. Venise, les arts et l’Europe au XVIIIe siècle].
G. Fogolari et al., Il Settecento Italiano, Milan and Rome, 1932, I, pl. CXCVII, fig. 299.
J. Byam Shaw, ‘Some Venetian draughtsmen of the eighteenth century’, Old Master Drawings, VII, no. 28, March 1933, p. 57.
A.G. Bragaglia, Pulcinella, Rome, 1953, ill. p. 33.
J. Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London, 1962, p. 55, ill. on dust jacket.
A. Mariuz, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Venice, [1971], p. 87, n. 107, ‘Acqueforti e disegni’, fig. 31.
P.P. Fehl, ‘Farewell to Jokes: The Last Capricci of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and the Tradition of Irony in Venetian Painting’, Critical Inquiry, V, no. 4, Summer 1978-1979, p. 786, fig. 17.
M.E. Vetrocq, Domenico Tiepolo’s Punchinello Drawings, exhib. cat., Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum and Stanford University Art Museum, 1979-1980, no. S1, ill.
G. Knox, ‘Domenico Tiepolo’s Punchinello Drawings: Satire, or Labor of Love?’, in Satire in the Eighteenth Century, New York and London, 1983, pp. 127, 144, no. 1.
A.M. Gealt, Domenico Tiepolo. The Punchinello Drawings, New York, 1986, no. 2, 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, p. 98, p. 244, no. 1, ill. p. 97. [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. RBF120 (catalogued by F. Russell).
A.M. Gealt, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo. Master Drawings from the Anthony J. Moravec Collection, exhib. cat., Bloomington, Indiana, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, 2016-2017, p. 47.
signed ‘Dom.o Tiepolo f’ (lower right) and numbered, probably by the artist, ‘1’ (in the border, upper left)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark three crescents (cf. Heawood 867)
13 5/8 x 18 3/8 in. (34.6 x 46.6 cm)
