id: 117026 accession number: 1937.571 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.571 updated: 2025-03-13 11:02:30.615000 Divertimento per li Regazzi (Entertainment for Children): The Game of Bowls, 1797–1804. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727–1804). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk; framing lines in brown ink over graphite on antique laid paper; image: 29.7 x 41.6 cm (11 11/16 x 16 3/8 in.); sheet: 35.5 x 47.3 cm (14 x 18 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1937.571 title: The Game of Bowls title in original language: series: Divertimento per li Regazzi (Entertainment for Children) series in original language: creation date: 1797–1804 creation date earliest: 1797 creation date latest: 1804 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 18th century technique: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk; framing lines in brown ink over graphite on antique laid paper department: Drawings collection: DR - Italian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727–1804) - artist --- measurements: Image: 29.7 x 41.6 cm (11 11/16 x 16 3/8 in.); Sheet: 35.5 x 47.3 cm (14 x 18 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(1) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower left, in brown ink: Dom°. Tiepolo f ; upper left, in brown ink: 20 ; upper left, in graphite: o ; lower right, in graphite: 20 [sideways] ; VERSO, upper right, in blue crayon: 3 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1939-01-04T05:00:00 Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939). title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: Italian and French Drawings opening date: 1959-10-13T04:00:00 Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960). title: Italian Prints and Drawings opening date: 1968-01-30T05:00:00 Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 26, 1968). title: Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings opening date: 1979-09-02T04:00:00 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). title: The Tiepolos and Their World opening date: 1981-10-06T04:00:00 The Tiepolos and Their World. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 6-November 22, 1981). title: Venice as City and Theater opening date: 1985-02-27T05:00:00 Venice as City and Theater. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-April 21, 1985). title: Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman opening date: 1996-09-14T00:00:00 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). title: Comicity and Caricature in Tiepolo's Art opening date: 2004-09-03T00:00:00 Comicity and Caricature in Tiepolo's Art. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy (September 3-December 5, 2004). title: Imagination in the Age of Reason opening date: 2024-09-28T04:00:00 Imagination in the Age of Reason. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 28, 2024-March 2, 2025). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Baltimore Museum of Art, The Age of Elegance: Rococo and Its Effect (Apr. 25-June 14, 1959), no. 223.', 'opening_date': '1959-04-25T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "End of Continuous Exhibition of CMA Old Master Drawings in Director\'s Corridor in Old Bldg." (closed Mar. 13, 1957).', 'opening_date': '1957-03-13T00:00:00'} * {'description': "CMA, installed, director's corridor (Oct. 19, 1954).", 'opening_date': '1954-10-19T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Five Centuries of Drawings (Oct. 15-Nov. 15, 1953), no. 67.', 'opening_date': '1953-10-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (rearranged: Jan. 21, 1953).', 'opening_date': '1953-01-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 30-Dec. 8, 1950; rehung Jan. 8, 1951, "with small changes").', 'opening_date': '1950-06-30T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May. 14, 1946- ).', 'opening_date': '1946-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (July 27, 1944- ).', 'opening_date': '1944-07-27T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Paintings and Drawings from the Collection" (Dec. 14, 1943-Jan. 4, 1944).', 'opening_date': '1943-12-14T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA (hung Oct. 13, 1940).', 'opening_date': '1940-10-13T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'San Francisco?, Golden Gate International Exposition (May 25-Sep. 29, 1940), no. 499.--NOTE: from Reg. file: "in a separate cat., "Master Drawings," this is no. 100 (illus.)--publ. Art News (20 May 1939)"--', 'opening_date': '1940-05-25T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA (Mar. 12-Apr. 21, 1940).', 'opening_date': '1940-03-12T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Life of Pulcinella" Series (Mar. 30-Apr. 30, 1939).', 'opening_date': '1939-03-30T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection (June 21-Sep. 30, 1938).', 'opening_date': '1938-06-21T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE [Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1920, lot 41]; [Colnaghi & Co.]; Richard Owen, Paris (all Udine & Bloomington, 1996, p. 216, no. 155; see departmental card for 1937.569). Italico Brass, Venice (according to departmental card) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Francis, Henry. "Six Drawings from the Life of Pulcinella by the younger Tiepolo." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 4 (April 1938): 46-49. page number: Mentioned: p. 48; Reproduced: p. 51 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25138005 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 575 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n107 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.571/1937.571_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.571/1937.571_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.571/1937.571_full.tif