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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Punchinello Chopping Logs, from the series Divertimento per li regazzi (Entertainment for Children)
    Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. Punchinello Chopping Logs, from the series Divertimento per li regazzi (Entertainment for Children), 1790/1804. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002105

    Punchinello Chopping Logs, from the series Divertimento per li regazzi (Entertainment for Children)

    by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

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    Provenance

    Richard Owen (died 1951), Paris [according to Bloomington, Ind. 1979]. Conte Alessandro Contini (died 1955), Florence, possibly by 1929-at least 1932 [Venice 1929; Fogolari 1932]. R. Brinsley Ford, London, by 1946 [Exeter, England 1946]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, November 10, 1954, lot 41, to Maison [according to price list in auction cat.]. Sold by Knoedler and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1957.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1921. Venice, Palazzo dell’Esposizione, "Il Settecento Italiano," 1929, cat. 77-81, as "Cinque storie di Pulcinella." Exeter, England, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, "Works from the Ford Collection," March 7-April 5, 1946, cat. 127. London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, "18th Century Venice," 1951, cat. 138k. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Carl O. Schniewind Memorial Exhibition," January 22-March 3, 1958, cat. 33. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Isntitute of Chicago," October17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 24. Bloomington, Ind., Indiana University Art Museum, "Domenico Tiepolo’s Punchinello Drawings," 1979, cat. S27. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 145, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art. The Art Institute of Chicago, "18th Century Venetian Drawings," January 11-May 5, 1985. Hannover, Germany, Forum des Landesmuseums Hannover, "Venedigs Ruhm in Norden," December 3, 1991-February 2, 1992, cat. 152D; traveled to the Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf im Ehrenhof, February 16-April 26, 1992.

    Publications

    Gino Fogolari, Il Settecento Italiano, I (Milan, 1932), no. 296 (ill.). Adriano Mariuz, Giandomenico Tiepolo (1971), no. 33. Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), p. 55, no. 2C7. Adelherd Gealt, Domenico Tiepolo: The Punchinello Drawings (New York, 1986), no. 43

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo / Italian, 1727-1804
    Date
    1790/1804
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with charcoal, on off-white laid paper
    Dimensions
    34.5 × 46.8 cm (13 5/8 × 18 7/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
    Accession no.
    1957.309

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