id: 117026
accession number: 1937.571
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The Game of Bowls, 1790s. 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; sheet: 35.5 x 47.3 cm (14 x 18 5/8 in.); image: 29.7 x 41.6 cm (11 11/16 x 16 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1937.571
title: The Game of Bowls
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creation date: 1790s
creation date earliest: 1790
creation date latest: 1799
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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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
department: Drawings
collection: DR - Italian
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727-1804) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 35.5 x 47.3 cm (14 x 18 5/8 in.); Image: 29.7 x 41.6 cm (11 11/16 x 16 3/8 in.)
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description: cream(1) laid paper
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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
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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 (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: 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 Draftman
opening date: 1996-09-14T00:00:00
Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftman. 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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* CMA, Venice As City and Theater (Feb. 27-Apr. 21, 1985).
CMA, The Tiepolos and Their World (Oct. 6-Nov. 22, 1981).
Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum, Works of Domenico Tiepolo (1979), no. 21, illus.
CMA, Italian Prints and Drawings (Jan. 30-Mar. 26, 1968).
CMA, Italian and French Drawings (Oct. 13, 1959-Feb. 2, 1960).
Baltimore Museum of Art, The Age of Elegance: Rococo and Its Effect (Apr. 25-June 14, 1959), no. 223.
CMA, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition (Mar. 3, 1958-?).
CMA, "End of Continuous Exhibition of CMA Old Master Drawings in Director's Corridor in Old Bldg." (closed Mar. 13, 1957).
CMA, installed, director's corridor (Oct. 19, 1954).
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Five Centuries of Drawings (Oct. 15-Nov. 15, 1953), no. 67.
CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (rearranged: Jan. 21, 1953).
CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (June 30-Dec. 8, 1950; rehung Jan. 8, 1951, "with small changes").
from June 30, 1950).
CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May. 14, 1946- ).
CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (July 27, 1944- ).
CMA, "Paintings and Drawings from the Collection" (Dec. 14, 1943-Jan. 4, 1944).
CMA (hung Oct. 13, 1940).
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)"--
CMA (Mar. 12-Apr. 21, 1940).
CMA, "Life of Pulcinella" Series (Mar. 30-Apr. 30, 1939).
CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 4-Mar. 26, 1939).
CMA, Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection (June 21-Sep. 30, 1938).
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy (9/3/2004 - 12/5/2004): "Comicity and Caricaure in Tiepolo's Art" exh. cat. no. 130, p. 192-193.
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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)
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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
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