Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005795Punchinello's Mistress Faints, from the series Divertimento per li regazzi (Entertainment for Children)
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, upper left, in pen and brown ink: "14"; lower left, in pen and brown ink: "Domo Tiepolo f"
Provenance
Possibly sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 6, 1920, lot 41. Colnaghi, London; Richard Owen, Paris. Paul Suzor, Paris. David Carritt, London; sold by Artemis, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA., 1984; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.
Exhibition history
Paris, Musée des Arts décoratifs, 1921. London, Artemis, "Master Prints and Drawings: 16th to 19th Centuries," 1984, cat. 29. Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime, Old Master Drawings," Dec. 11, 1998–Mar. 28, 1999. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 67, cat. 38 (ill.).
Publications
Adelheid Gealt, Domenico Tiepolo: The Punchinello Drawings (New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1986), no. 13, pp. 50, 51 (ill). Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 67, cat. 38 (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 Domenico Tiepolo / Italian, 1727-1804
- Date
- 1790–1801
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with touches of brush and orange watercolor, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, prepared with a white gouache ground, laid down on grayish-ivory laid card
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 36.1 × 47.6 cm (14 1/4 × 18 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2012.95
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