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Punchinello standing
Maker
1696-1770
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Width: 12.1 cm
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Punchinello is a popular character of the Commedia dell’arte (Italian comedy), an early form of professional theatre. He is typically represented as a hunched man with a potbelly and a hooked nose in a white costume. Tiepolo devoted numerous sketches to this subject, humorously playing with his appearance. Here, Punchinello stands with his arms comfortably propped on his prominent belly. He wears a simple bonnet instead of his more typical tall hat. The corpulent figure seems barely contained within the edges of the sheet.
Provenance
Exhibition History
Tiepolo: ironia e comico, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 03/09/2004-05/12/2004
Carnivalesque, Edinburgh City Art Centre, Scotland, 21/10/2000-16/12/2000 ...More
Carnivalesque, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, England, 15/07/2000-10/09/2000
Carnivalesque, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery & Brighton & England, 06/05/2000-02/07/2000
Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971
Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
Goya and his Times, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1963-64
Old Master drawings, W.R. Jeudwine at the Alpine Club Gallery, London, 1963
Eighteenth-century Venice, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 03/01/1951-18/04/1951 ...Less
Literature
unpaginated
ill.
Saba Sardi, Francesco, Giambattista Tiepolo: Salvatore D'addario, Milan 2006
p. 51, no. 40
ill. on p. 35
Tiepolo: ironia e comico, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 2004
cat. no. 22
pp. 105-06
ill. ...More
Carnivalesque, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery; Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham; City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 2000 Hayward Gallery Publishing: London, 2000
no. 61
ill. on p. 44
From Leonardo to Rembrandt: drawings from the Royal Library of Turin, Sciolla, Gianni Carlo Biblioteca Reale, Turin 1990
p. 300 under no. 120
Knox, George, 'The Punchinello Drawings of Giambattista Tiepolo' in 'Interpretazioni Veneziane', Venice 1984
p. 443
fig. 14
Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 54
Goya and his Times, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1963-1964
cat. no. 305
no. 305
Exhibition of old master drawings, W.R. Jeudwine at the Alpine Club Gallery, London, November 1959
cat. no. 305
p. 117, no. 305
Eighteenth-century Venice, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1951
cat. no. 131
p. 36 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: upper centre, graphite: "17" [Algarotti inventory number?].
Collector's mark: none.
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