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    Museum collections / The Cleveland Museum of Art
    The Trial
    Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. The Trial, 1790s. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art

    AT-00011290

    The Trial

    by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

    Also known as: Punchinello before the Magistrate

    View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

    Inscriptions

    signed, lower right, in brown ink: Dom°. Tiepolo f ; by artist, center, in brown ink: Grazia a Pu[ci?]ch / nela ; upper left, in brown ink: 35 ; upper left, in graphite: o ; lower left, in graphite: -o ; VERSO, upper right, in blue crayon: 6

    Provenance

    [Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1920, lot 41]; [Colnaghi & Co.]; Richard Owen, Paris (all from Blooomington and Udine, 1996, p. 216, no. 155 and departmental card). Italico Brass, Venice (according to departmental card)

    Exhibition history

    Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939). Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941). Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 27, 1941). The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). Mozart and the Age of Reason. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (organizer) (January 15-February 29, 1956). Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). Masks and Masquerades. New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (organizer) (February 4-March 31, 1961). Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 26, 1968). Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (organizer) (September 2-October 6, 1979); Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford, CA (November 13-December 30, 1979); Frick Collection, New York, NY (January 22-March 30, 1980). The Tiepolos and Their World. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 6-November 22, 1981). Venice as City and Theater. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-April 21, 1985). Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman. Civici Musei e Gallerie di Storia ed Arte, Castello, Udine (September 14-December 31, 1996); Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (January 15-March 9, 1997). Comicity and Caricature in Tiepolo's Art. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy (September 3-December 5, 2004).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Cleveland Museum of Art publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Cleveland Museum of Art is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727–1804)
    Date
    1790s
    Medium
    pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk; framing lines in brown ink over graphite
    Dimensions
    Sheet: 35 x 46.4 cm (13 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.); Image: 29.3 x 41.3 cm (11 9/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    Drawing
    Department
    Drawings
    Credit line
    Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
    Accession no.
    1937.569

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