Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006195Punchinello Collapses on the Road, from the series Divertimento per li regazzi (Entertainment for Children)
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right, brown ink: "Domo Tiepolo"; inscribed, lower right, graphite: "14"; inscribed, upper left, brown ink: "13"; inscribed, upper left, graphite: "O"
Provenance
Estate of the artist; sold Hôtel des Ventes, Paris, Nov. 10–12, 1845. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 6–7, 1920, lot 41, to Colnaghi, London; sold to Richard Owen, Paris, to at least 1950 [Paris 1950 exh. cat.]. Léon Suzor, Paris, by 1952–at least Nov. 1971 [Paris 1952 and Paris 1971 exh. cats.]. Sold by Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, London, to a private collection, 1995; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 29, 2014, lot 38, through François Borne to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1921. [no known title]. Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Chefs-d’oeuvre des Collections Parisiennes, 1950, p. 57, cat. 151. Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Tiepolo et Guardi, 1952, cat. 56, pl. 36. Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie des Tuileries, Venise au dix-huitième siècle, 1971, cat. 311. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, pp. 42-43, cat. 16, p. 139, GC 80, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Publications
James Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo (Faber, 1962), p. 56 n. 3. Marcia E. Vetrocq, Domenico Tiepolo’s Punchinello Drawings, with an introductory essay by Adelheid Gealt, exh. cat. (Indiana University Art Museum, 1979), pp. 122 (ill.); 145, S20. George Knox, “Domenico Tiepolo’s Punchinello Drawings, Satire, or Labor of Love?” in Satire in the Eighteenth Century, ed. John Dudley Browning (Garland, 1983), p. 127. Adelheid Gealt, Domenico Tiepolo: The Punchinello Drawings (G. Braziller, 1986), p. 191, no. 100 (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
- c. 1791
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown washes, over traces of charcoal, on off-white laid paper, with framing lines in pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- 36 × 47.5 cm (14 3/16 × 18 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.869
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