Punchinello Chopping Logs

Provenance

Richard Owen (died 1951), Paris [according to Bloomington, Ind. 1979]. Conte Alessandro Contini (died 1955), Florence, possibly by 1929-at least 1932 [Venice 1929; Fogolari 1932]. R. Brinsley Ford, London, by 1946 [Exeter, England 1946]; sold, Sotheby’s, London, November 10, 1954, lot 41, to Maison [according to price list in auction cat.]. Sold by Knoedler and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1957.

Punchinello Chopping Logs

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

1790/1804

Accession Number

6013

Medium

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with charcoal, on off-white laid paper

Dimensions

34.5 × 46.8 cm (13 5/8 × 18 7/16 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne