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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
Drunken Punchinello
ca. 1735-1750
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk.
6 1/4 x 6 inches (157 x 152 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.241
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo made a number of drawings of the popular commedia dell'arte character Punchinello, whom he depicted either alone or in the company of others just like him, with beaklike noses and sugarloaf hats. Sometimes they were pictured cooking gnocchi or, as here, having passed out from too much drink. Such sketches were to provide the point of departure for the famous series of Punchinello drawings undertaken late in life by the artist's son Domenico. -- Exhibition Label, from "Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection"

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Numbered in pencil at center right margin, "18".
Watermark: Two legged animal (bird?) above "ROSA".

Provenance: 
Dan Fellows Platt, Englewood; F. Kleinburger Galleries, Inc.; New York; Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc. New York; Austin A. Mitchell, New York; Mathias Komor, New York; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
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Platt, Dan Fellows, 1873-1938, former owner.
Mitchell, Austin A., former owner.
Komor, Mathias, 1909-1984, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography: 

The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, "Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection", 2017. Exh. cat., no. 364, 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. 48.

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Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
School: 
Italian
Century: 
18th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Exhibitions: 
Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection
Department: 
Drawings and Prints