Punchinello Carried in Triumph in a Procession

between 1797 and 1800

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Italian, 1727-1804

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Title Punchinello Carried in Triumph in a Procession

Artwork Date between 1797 and 1800

Artist Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Life Dates 1727-1804

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pen and brown ink and brown wash with details in brush and opaque ocher over black chalk on cream laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 14 × 18 5/8 inches (35.6 × 47.3 cm) Framed: 18 5/8 × 23 5/8 × 7/8 inches (47.3 × 60 × 2.2 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 55.487

Markings

Signed Signed, in pen and brown ink, upper left of image: Domo Tiepolo

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, upper left: 37

Marks Watermark: [3 crescents of ascending size (Heawood 866-875)]

Provenance

July 6, 1920, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) no. 41

Richard Owen (Paris, France)

Countess Wachmeister

December 15, 1954, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) no. 109

1955, Marianne Feilchenfeldt (Zurich, Switzerland)

1955-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Byam Shaw, James. The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo. ed. Karl Theodore Parker. London, 1962, pp. 52-59.

Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings. Exh. cat., Indiana University Museum of Art. Bloomington, 1979, p. 27, no. 553.

Gealt, Adelheid. Domenico Tiepolo. The Punchinello Drawings. New York, 1986 (pl. 41).

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp.133-134, no. 65, p. 149 (pl. xxi).

Italian Painting of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Exh. cat., Birmingham Museum of Art. Birmingham, 1958, no. 20.

Knox, George. "Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings: Satire or Labor of Love? " In Satire in the 18th Century. ed. John Browning. Vol. 10 of McMaster Studies in the 18th Century. New York, 1982, p. 132 (fig. 4).

Knox, George. "The Punchinello Drawings of Giambattista Tiepolo." In Interpretazione veneziane: studi di storia dell'arte in onore di Michelangelo Muraro. ed. David Rosand. Venice 1984, pp. 439-441(fig. 3) (as Bacchanale del Gnocco).

Newberry, John S. "A Punchinello Drawing by Domenico Tiepolo." Bulletin of the DIA 35, no. 4 (1955/56): pp. 92-94 (ill.).

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Punchinello Carried in Triumph in a Procession, between 1797 and 1800, pen and brown ink and brown wash with details in brush and opaque ocher over black chalk on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 55.487.