
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002539Punchinellos Cooking and Tasting Gnocchi (Punchinellos' Repast)
Provenance
Italico Brass (died 1943), Venice; by descent to at least 1965 [Udine 1965]. Sold by E.V. Thaw and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1972.
Exhibition history
Udine, Loggia del Lionello, "Disegni del Tiepolo," October 11-November 14, 1965, cat. 48. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 32-33, cat. 15 (ill.), by Harold Joachim. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 117, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Eighteenth Century Venetian Drawings," January 11-May 5, 1985. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 58-59, cat. 20 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the Saint Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986. New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library: "Drawings by Giambattista Tiepolo and his Circle in North American Collections," shown at the Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Mass., October 12-December 15, 1996; and New York, the Pierpont Morgan Library, January 13-April 13, 1997, cat. 78. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
Publications
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), p. 48, no. 2B2. George Knox, "The Punchinello Drawings of Giambattista Tiepolo," Interpretazioni Veneziane. Studi di storia dell’arte in onore di Michelangelo Muraro (Venice, 1984), pp. 440-41 (ill.). James Byam Shaw and George Knox, The Robert Lehman Collection, 6 (New York, 1987), p. 124. Emmanuelle Brugerolles, "Disegni veneti dell’ École des Beaux-Arts di Parigi" (Venice, 1988), p. 53. Les Dessins Venitiens des Collections de l’École des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1990), p. 106 (ill.). David Rosand, Drawing Acts (New York, 2001) (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo / Italian, 1696–1770
- Date
- 1740/52
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, over a graphite underdrawing, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 19.7 × 23.1 cm (7 13/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Accession no.
- 1972.108
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