
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011290Inscriptions
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).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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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