Watermark: G B over T inside heart shaped shield. Watermark (transmitted infrared): GBT, heart, shield. 247047wm_2017_257_WM_transmIR.tif
Produced at the end of Domenico Tiepolo's life, this sheet belonged to a sequence, now dispersed, of 104 drawings illustrating the life of Punchinello, a commedia dell'arte character who in Domenico Tiepolo's series came to represent everyman. This is the fifth sheet in the sequence and shows the marriage feast of Punchinello's parents; as so often in the series, Tiepolo plays with the history of Venetian art and here frames the scene in a way that recalls earlier paintings of the Wedding at Cana by Veronese and others.
Signed at lower right: "Dom. Tiepolo f". Numbered in brush and brown ink at upper left, "5".
Owen, Richard, former owner.
Crocker, W. W., former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 380, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 62.