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accession number: 1937.573
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Divertimento per li Regazzi (Entertainment for Children): A Spring Shower, 1790s-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; 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: 1790s-1804
creation date earliest: 1790
creation date latest: 1804
current location:
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:
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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
department: Drawings
collection: DR - Italian
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727–1804) - artist
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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.)
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description: cream(1) laid paper
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inscription: signed, bottom right, in brown ink: Dom. Tiepolo f; upper left, in purple crayon: 74; verso, top right, in black chalk: 1; top right, in blue crayon: 7 [written over the "1"]; bottom right, in graphite: [Painting?] small of 4 figures only [upside down]
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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-February 25, 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); 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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1921.', 'opening_date': '1921-01-01T00:00:00'}
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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
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citations:
(P. & D. Colnaghi, London.)
date: 1920
footnotes:
citations:
Richard Owen [1873-1946], Paris.
date: 1920-?
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citations:
(Italico Brass [1870-1943], Venice, purchased by The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dec. 1937.)
date: ?-1937
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
date: 1937-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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 (1939): 46-49.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 48
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25138005
“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:
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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:
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