id: 117028 accession number: 1937.573 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.573 updated: 2025-03-07 12:09:33.103000 Divertimento per li Regazzi (Entertainment for Children): A Spring Shower, 1797–1804. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727–1804). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink over graphite on antique laid paper; image: 29.6 x 41.5 cm (11 5/8 x 16 5/16 in.); sheet: 35.5 x 47.1 cm (14 x 18 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1937.573 title: A Spring Shower 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, Venice, 18th century technique: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over 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: 29.6 x 41.5 cm (11 5/8 x 16 5/16 in.); Sheet: 35.5 x 47.1 cm (14 x 18 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(1) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, bottom right, in brown ink: Dom. Tiepolo f translation: remark: inscription: upper left, in purple crayon: 74 translation: remark: inscription: verso, top right, in black chalk: 1 translation: remark: inscription: top right, in blue crayon: 7 [written over the "1"] translation: remark: inscription: bottom right, in graphite: [Painting?] small of 4 figures only [upside down] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections opening date: Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (organizer). title: Six Drawings from the Life of Pulcinella by the Younger Tiepolo opening date: 1939-03-30T05:00:00 Six Drawings from the Life of Pulcinella by the Younger Tiepolo. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 30-April 30, 1939). title: Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums opening date: 1950-06-01T04:00:00 Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (June 1-September 15, 1950). title: Venice 1700-1800: An Exhibition of the Venetian Eighteenth Century opening date: 1952-09-30T05:00:00 Venice 1700-1800: An Exhibition of the Venetian Eighteenth Century. Indianapolis Museum of Art; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (September 30-November 2, 1952). 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). 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). title: Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings opening date: 1979-09-02T04:00:00 Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings. Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford, CA (November 13-December 30, 1979). title: Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings opening date: 1979-09-02T04:00:00 Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings. Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford, CA (November 13-December 30, 1979). title: Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings opening date: 1979-09-02T04:00:00 Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings. 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: The Glory of Venice: Art in the 18th Century opening date: 1994-09-15T04:00:00 The Glory of Venice: Art in the 18th Century. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (September 15-December 14, 1994); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (January 29-April 23, 1995); Galleria dell'Accademia, 30121 Venezia, Italy (May 25-July 30, 1995). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). 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': 'Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1921.', 'opening_date': '1921-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, London, anonymous sale, July 6, 1920, lot 41: "one hundred and two Carnival Scenes, with many figures," sold to P. & D. Colnaghi.) date: 1920 footnotes: citations: (P. & D. Colnaghi, London.) date: 1920 footnotes: citations: Richard Owen [1873-1946], Paris. date: 1920-? footnotes: citations: (Italico Brass [1870-1943], Venice, purchased by The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dec. 1937.) date: ?-1937 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. date: 1937- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS “Art Throughout America: Cleveland: Tiepolo Drawings from a Famous Series.” The Art News 37, no. 34 (May 20, 1939): 15. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 15 url: Francis, Henry S. "Six Drawings from the Life of Pulcinella by the Younger Tiepolo." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 4 (April 1939): 46-49. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 48 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25138005 Golden Gate International Exposition, and Annemarie Henle. Master Drawings, An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections. San Francisco, Calif: Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition, 1940. page number: Mentioned: p. 24, cat. no. 99. Reproduced: p. 43 no. 99 url: Palace of Fine Arts. Golden Gate International Exhibition, Official Catalog. San Francisco: Palace of Fine Arts, 1940. page number: Mentioned: p. 99, cat. no. 498. url: Tietze, Hans. European Master Drawings in the United States. New York: J.J. Augustin Publishers, 1947. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 198-199, no. 99 url: Benesch, Otto. Venetian Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in America. New York: H. Bittner and Company, 1947. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. 42 url: Detroit Institute of Arts. Loan Exhibition of Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums: Detroit Institute of Arts, June 1-September 15, 1950. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1950. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 50 url: Detroit Institute of Arts, and E. P. Richardson. Venice, 1700-1800: An Exhibition of Venice and the Eighteenth Century. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Art and John Herron Art Museum, 1952. page number: Reproduced: pp. 63-64, no. 82 url: Morassi, Antonio. “Una Mostra del Settecento Veneziano a Detroit.” Arte Veneta: Rivista Trimestrale di Storia dell’Arte 25 (1953). page number: Mentioned: pp. 53-54. Reproduced: p. 53 fig. 43 url: Muraro, Michelangelo and Andre Grabar. Treasures of Venice. Geneva: Skira, 1963. page number: Reproduced: p. 211 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 148 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n172 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 148 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n172 Mariuz, Adriano. Giandomenico Tiepolo. Venice: Alfieri, 1971. page number: Reproduced: fig. 36 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 145 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n165 Vetrocq, Marcia E., Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, and Adelheid M. Gealt. Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings. Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum, 1979. page number: Mentioned: p. 17, p. 82; Reproduced: p. 83, no. 23 url: Vetrocq, Marcia. “The Divertimento per li Regazzi of Domenico Tiepolo.” PhD diss., Stanford University, 1979. page number: Mentioned: pp. 143-144, cat. no. 55. Reproduced: p. 230 no. 55 url: Fehl, Philipp P. “Farewell to Jokes: The Last Capricci of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and the Tradition of Irony in Venetian Painting.” Critical Inquiry 5, no. 4 (Summer 1979): 761-791. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 791, fig. 23. url: Gealt, Adelheid Medicus.”The courtship, marriage, and other exploits of Punchinello.” Art News 78, no.9 (November 1979): 134-137. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 136-137 url: Carmean, E.A.. Picasso: The Saltimbanques. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1980. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 20, fig. 2 url: “Museum and Dealer’s Catalogues: Frick Collection” The Print Collector’s Newsletter 11, no. 1 (March-April 1980). page number: Reproduced: p. 19 url: Ashbery, John. “Punch Lines.” New York Magazine, February 18, 1980. 80. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 80. url: Knox, George. "Domenico Tiepolo’s Punchinello Drawings: Satire, or Labor of Love?" In Satire in the 18th Century, edited by J.D. Browning, 124-146. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1983. page number: Mentioned: p. 145 no .74 url: Borowitz, Helen O. "Three Guitars: Reflections of Italian Comedy in Watteau, Daumier, and Picasso." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 4 (1984): 116-29. page number: Mentioned: p. 122; Reproduced: p. 23 fig. 11 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159858 Gealt, Adelheid Medicus and James Byam Shaw. Domenico Tiepolo: The Punchinello Drawings. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1986. page number: Mentioned: pp. 21, 160; Reproduced: frontispiece, pl. 68. url: Levey, Michael. Giambattista Tiepolo: His Life and Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 134 fig. 124 url: Mariuz, Adriano. “I disegni di Pulcinella di Giandomenico Tiepolo.” Arte Veneta 40, (1986). page number: Reproduced: p. 273 fig. 11. url: Succi, Dario, Madelein Barbin, Annalia Delneri, Arnaldo Momo, and Michelangelo Muraro. I Tiepolo: Virtuosismo e ironia. Turin: Umberto Allemandi & Co., 1988. page number: Mentioned: pp. 303 under no. 10, 322; Reproduced: p. 322. url: Pedrocco, Filippo. Disegni di Giandomenico Tiepolo. Milan: Berenice, 1990. page number: Mentioned: p. 90 no. 39; Reproduced: pl. 39 url: Fehl, Philipp P. Decorum and Wit: The Poetry of Venetian Painting, Essays in the History of The Classical Tradition. Vienna: IRSA, 1992. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 348 fig. 224. url: Martineau, Jane, and Andrew Robison. The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1994. page number: Mentioned: 329-30, 505, no. 223 url: Alpers, Svetlana. “Post-Genius Venice.” Art in America (March 1995): 62-69. page number: Reproduced: p. 69. url: Sciré, Giovanna Nepi, et al. Splendori del Settecento Veneziano. Milan: Electa, 1995. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 476, no. 204. url: Gealt, Adelheid M., George Knox, Giuseppe Bergamini, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman. Milan, Italy: Electa, 1996. page number: Reproduced: p. 246, no. 74 url: Paulin, Roger and Peter Hutchinson. Rilke’s Duino Elegies. London: Duckworth and Ariadne Press, 1996. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 77, fig. 4 url: Wolk-Simon, Linda. "Domenico Tiepolo: Drawings, Prints, and Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 54, no. 3 (1996): 1-68. page number: Mentioned: pp. 26 under no. 39, 68 no. 107 url: doi:10.2307/3269143 Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 27, p. 4, pp. 74-75, pp. 286-287; Reproduced: p. 75 url: Mariuz, Adriano and Giuseppe Pavanello. Tiepolo: Ironia e comico. Venice: Marsilio, 2004. page number: Reproduced: no. 54 url: Calasso, Roberto. Il Rosa Tiepolo. Milan: Adelphi, 2006. page number: Mentioned: p. 59; Reproduced: p. 62 url: McHale, Katherine. “Child’s Play? Giandomenico Tiepolo’s Punchinello Drawings and the Fall of Venice.” Master Drawings 50, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 95-114. page number: Mentioned: p. 110; Reproduced: p. 111 fig. 17 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 159 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.573/1937.573_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.573/1937.573_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.573/1937.573_full.tif